Intelligent sensory evaluation: Concepts, implementations, and applications

  • Authors:
  • Xianyi Zeng;Da Ruan;Ludovic Koehl

  • Affiliations:
  • The ENSAIT Textile Institute, 9 rue de l'Ermitage, F-59100 Roubaix, France;The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCKCEN), Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium;The ENSAIT Textile Institute, 9 rue de l'Ermitage, F-59100 Roubaix, France

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Sensory evaluation has been widely applied in different industrial fields especially for quality inspection, product design and marketing. Classically, factorial multivariate methods are the only tool for analyzing and modeling sensory data provided by experts, panelists or consumers. These methods are efficient for solving some problems but sometimes cause important information lost. In this situation, new methods based on intelligent techniques such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, data aggregation, classification, clustering have been applied for solving uncertainty and imprecision related to sensory evaluation. These new methods can be used together with the classical ones in a complementary way for obtaining relevant information from sensory data. This paper outlines the general background of sensory evaluation and the corresponding industrial interests and explicitly indicates some orientations for further development by IT researchers.