Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends II

✍ Scribed by N. S. Lawand, P. J. French, J. van Driel (auth.), Alex Mason, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Krishanthi Padmarani Jayasundera, Nabarun Bhattacharyya (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation 8
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is written for academic and industry professionals working in the field of sensing, instrumentation and related fields, and is positioned to give a snapshot of the current state of the art in sensing technology, particularly from the applied perspective. The book is intended to give broad overview of the latest developments, in addition to discussing the process through which researchers go through in order to develop sensors, or related systems, which will become more widespread in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Cochlear Implant Electrode Improvement for Stimulation and Sensing....Pages 1-25
Machine Vision Based Techniques for Automatic Mango Fruit Sorting and Grading Based on Maturity Level and Size....Pages 27-46
Region Adaptive, Unsharp Masking Based Lanczos-3 Interpolation for 2-D Up-Sampling: Crisp-Rule Versus Fuzzy-Rule Based Approach....Pages 47-73
Gaze-Controlled Stereo Vision to Measure Position and Track a Moving Object: Machine Vision for Crane Control....Pages 75-93
Integrated Determination of Tea Quality Based on Taster’s Evaluation, Biochemical Characterization and Use of Electronics....Pages 95-117
Electronic Nose and Its Application to Microbiological Food Spoilage Screening....Pages 119-140
Multiclass Kernel Classifiers for Quality Estimation of Black Tea Using Electronic Nose....Pages 141-160
Electronic Nose Setup for Estimation of Rancidity in Cookies....Pages 161-187
Optimization of Sensor Array in Electronic Nose by Combinational Feature Selection Method....Pages 189-205
Exploratory Study on Aroma Profile of Cardamom by GC-MS and Electronic Nose....Pages 207-216
High Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Device for Toxic Vapor Detection: Prospects and Challenges....Pages 217-241
Electronic and Electromechanical Tester of Physiological Sensors....Pages 243-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-265

✦ Subjects

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Communications Engineering, Networks; Analytical Chemistry