With 200 million head, Brazil is the largest world producer of cattle. However, national beef cattle farming is characterized by low productivity and a large variation in beef quality. This second aspect can be justified by the large Zebu fraction found in the genetic base of our herds. Zebu breeds normally present less soft beef with lower marbling when compared with taurine breeds, making the appraisal of this meat difficult in international markets. Therefore, the development of genotypes tha

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

The use of technology based on computer vision and image processing has proven to be quite effective in automating the process of meat inspection routine. Countries like Australia and the USA have already used some computational methods for classifying and typifying carcasses in their industries. Based on this scenario of modernization of beef cattle farming and the significant production and export of meat in Brazil, there is a high demand to parameterize and enable automation processes for eva

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022