Contributors

Jacopo AguzziInstitut de Ciencies del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Diwan P. ArianaMichigan State University, Department of Biosystems and AgriculturalEngineering, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Jose BlascoInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Centro deAgroingenierıa, Moncada (Valencia), Spain

Kuanglin ChaoUS Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Henry A.Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Environmental Microbialand Food Safety Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, USA

Corrado CostaCRA-ING Agricultural Engineering Research Unit of the Agriculture ResearchCouncil, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy

Gamal ElMasryUniversity College Dublin, Agriculture and Food Science Centre, Belfield,Dublin, Ireland; Agricultural Engineering Department, Suez Canal University,Ismailia, Egypt

Juan Gomez-SanchisIntelligent Data Analysis Laboratory (IDAL), Electronic EngineeringDepartment, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot (Valencia), Spain

Aoife A. GowenBiosystems Engineering, School of Agriculture, Food Science and VeterinaryMedicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Digvir S. JayasBiosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada

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Lu JiangBio-imaging and Machine Vision Lab, The Fischell Department ofBioengineering, University of Maryland, USA

David LewisRadiance Technologies, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, USA

Li LiuDepartment of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, MacdonaldCampus, Quebec, Canada

Renfu LuUSDA ARS Sugarbeet and Bean Research Unit, Michigan State University,East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Paolo MenesattiCRA-ING Agricultural Engineering Research Unit of the Agriculture ResearchCouncil, Monterotondo (Rome), Italy

Enrique MoltoInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Centro deAgroingenierıa, Moncada (Valencia), Spain

Michael O. NgadiDepartment of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, MacdonaldCampus, Quebec, Canada

Colm P. O’DonnellBiosystems Engineering, School of Agriculture, Food Science and VeterinaryMedicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Jitendra PaliwalBiosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada

Gerrit PolderWageningen UR, Biometris, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Jianwei QinUS Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Henry A.Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, USA

Chandra B. SinghBiosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada

Junichi SugiyamaNational Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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Da-Wen SunUniversity College Dublin, Agriculture and Food Science Centre, Belfield,Dublin, Ireland

Masoud TaghizadehBiosystems Engineering, School of Agriculture, Food Science and VeterinaryMedicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Yang TaoBio-imaging and Machine Vision Lab, The Fischell Department ofBioengineering, University of Maryland, USA

Mizuki TsutaNational Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Gerie van der HeijdenWageningen UR, Biometris, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ning WangDepartment of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma StateUniversity, Stilwater, Oklahoma, USA

Haibo YaoMississippi State University, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, USA

Bin ZhuBio-imaging and Machine Vision Lab, The Fischell Department ofBioengineering, University of Maryland, USA