Two simple words, fiber quality, mean quite different things to cotton growers and to cotton
processors. Growers think about those words when the USDA classing office tells them that …

This study proposes a Swin Transformer for Tobacco Detection (SwinTD) to detect foreign
objects in the cut section of tobacco packets. SwinTD uses a Swin Transformer to model the …

Color of seed cotton is one of the key indexes of seed cotton quality, which greatly affects the
price, grading, storage, and processing of seed cotton. Currently, there are shortage of …

The presence of foreign matter in cotton seriously affects the cotton grade and thus the price
per bale paid by the spinner to the grower, the efficiency of the spinning and ginning …

The trash and color of raw cotton are very important and decisive factors in the current cotton
grading system. In this paper, an image system is developed that can characterize trash from …

Technologies currently used for cotton contaminant assessment suffer from some
fundamental limitations. These limitations result in the misassessment of the cotton quality …

Colour is the basic criterion of cotton classification into cotton grade according to the
Universal Cotton Standards. It also reflects the quality of other non-US grown cotton. For …

Raw cotton may contain various kinds of trash, such as leaf, bark, and seed coat particles.
The content of each of these trash categories is useful information for finding more efficient …

Detection of foreign matter in cleaned cotton is instrumental to accurately grading cotton
quality, which in turn impacts the marketability of the cotton. Current grading systems return …

Cotton quality, a major factor determining both cotton profitability and marketability, is
affected by not only the overall quantity of but also the type of the foreign matter. Although …