AUTOMATED CARCASS BIOSTEREOMETRICS IMAGING SYSTEM

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A BIOSTEREOMETRICS IMAGING SYSTEM SUITABLE TO BE USED IN THE ASSESSMENT OF BODY COMPOSITION AND YIELD OF PRIMAL CUTS ON WARM CARCASSES. BIOSTEREOMETRICS IS THE SPATIAL OR SPATIAL-TEMPORAL ANALYSISOF BIOLOGICAL FORM OR FUNCTION BASED ON PRINCIPLES OF ANALYTIC GEOMETRY. THIS TECHNIQUE DEFINES THE SURFACE OF ANOBJECT BY A FINITE SET OF THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATES GENERATED FROM THE ANALYSIS OF FOUR PAIRS OF TWO DIMENSIONALIMAGES (CONVERGENT ORIENTATION). THE COORDINATES CAN BE MANIPULATED AS DESIRED TO ACCURATELY DETERMINE SURFACE AREA,VOLUMES OF SPECIFIC PARTS OR THE WHOLE, LENGTHS, ETC.