Smartphone images can accurately assess pork marbling

Chinese researchers looked into the use of a shallow context encoder network (Marbling-Net) to accurately segment pork marbling regions from smartphone images. Pork marbling is the representation of intramuscular fat, which contributes to pork quality and taste. Visual scoring is a subjective approach to evaluate marbling characteristics. However, it may produce unreliable and inconsistent results. Therefore, smart, non-destructive and low-cost techniques are necessary to quantitatively asses