Image Acquisition and Processing for Chemical Bead Sensors:

Giving the Electronic Tongue a Sense of Good Taste

Spring 1999

Project by Hitesh Mehta, hmehta@ece.utexas.edu

and Edward Zhu, ezhu@ece.utexas.edu

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The UT Electrical Engineering Chemistry Departments are jointly developing a sensor (nicknamed the Electronic Tongue) that can detect the presence of targeted chemicals. Early experiments have demonstrated the proof-of-concept for this project; however, the technique employed to produce data from the sensor is crude and time-consuming. The goal of this project is to automate and simplify the process for collecting data. This project will employ hardware and software. Commercial imaging hardware will be purchased and adapted for this project, while custom software will be written to interface the hardware and provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for users.

List of example images (all JPEG)


Final report and descrition of software produced: