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Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 20 (1998) 117–130 Defects segmentation on ‘Golden Delicious’ apples by using colour machine vision V. Leemans *, H. Magein, M.-F. Destain Faculte? uni6ersitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Passage des de?porte?s, 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium Received 18 August 1997; received in revised form 9 January 1998; accepted 16 January 1998 Abstract A method based on colour information is proposed to detect defects on ‘Golden Delicious’ apples. In a first step, a colour model based on the variability of the normal colour is described. To segment the def