Comparative Study of Red-Green-Blue (RGB), Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV), CIE L*a*B* (Lab), and Luminance-Chrominance (YCbCr) Colour Spaces for Fruit Segmentation in Agricultural Images
By: Maxwell Salazar, Paola Portero and Santiago Perez
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Published on: Sep 5, 2026
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