Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Food Manufacturing
暫譯: 食品製造的感測與人工智慧解決方案

這本書為讀者提供了機器學習和感測技術的實用介紹，包括其設計以及最終能改善食品生產的具體應用。它展示了這些感測和計算系統如何適合在食品工廠中實施流程。

本書首先為讀者概述了食品製造標準的歷史結構，以及這些標準如何定義當今的製造方式。接著，針對食品行業的專業人士，介紹了人工智慧（AI）、機器學習和神經網絡等主題。書中還解釋了不同的感測系統及其基本原理。它展示了這些感測和計算系統如何適合在食品工廠中實施流程，以及哪些類型的感測系統已被證明能為食品製造行業帶來好處。作者還討論了食品安全、標籤和可追溯性等問題，以及感測技術和人工智慧如何幫助解決這些問題。他們還使用案例研究和具體示例，展示這些技術相較於當前方法的優勢。

這本書是一本實用的入門手冊，適合學生、食品工程師、技術專家和流程工程師，探討遵循工業4.0方法的現代製造系統的好處和挑戰。

Daniel Hefft is a food engineer from Germany. He received his undergraduate degree from Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe with specialization in cereal technology. He has a master's degree from the University of Reading and is currently at the University of Birmingham. He has been awarded research fellowships and research affiliation with the University of Birmingham. He has extensive years of experience in the food industry, having worked for a range of companies. His specialties are foodprocess design and engineering. He is the founder and past CTO of Rheality Ltd., which utilizes a novel technology based on acoustic sensing and machine learning for rheology measurements. Daniel is also the founder of the Engineering for Food and Drinks Special Interest Group at the Institution of Agricultural Engineers and its current chair. Since 2018 he has gained professional recognition as a chartered engineer with the Institution of Agricultural Engineers. He is further involved in the Association of German Food Technologists (GDL e.V.) and the Institute of Physics (IOP).

Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji is presently a faculty member at the Microbiology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Edo State University Uzairue (EDSU), Edo State, Nigeria, where he utilized the application of biological techniques and microbial bioprocesses for the actualization of sustainable development goals and agrarian revolution, through quality teaching, research, and community development. He was formerly the Acting Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, the Head of Department of Microbiology, Sub Dean for Faculty of Science and currently the Chairman Grant Committee and the Ag Dean for Faculty of Science, at EDSU. He is a Visiting Professor and the Executive Director for the Center of Biotechnology, Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, as well as a visiting scientist to the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Durban, South Africa. He is presently an external examiner to many academic institutions around the globe most especially for PhD and MSc students. He has won several scientific awards and grants from renowned academic bodies such as Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India; The World Academy of Science (TWAS), Italy; Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NPF), Netherlands; The Agency for International Development Cooperation, Israel; Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He has published many scientific journal articles and conference proceedings in refereed national and international journals with over 450 manuscripts and 4 scientific patents. He was ranked recently as number 20 among the top 500 prolific authors in Nigeria between 2019 till date by SciVal/SCOPUS. His research interests include Microbiology, Biotechnology, Post-harvest management, Food Science, Bioinformatics, and Nanotechnology. He was also recently appointed as the President and Chairman Governing Council of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network Society. He was recently appointed as the Director for International Affiliation and Training Centre for Environmental and Public Health, Research and Development, Zaria. He is presently a series editor with Wiley and Sons, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, USA, editing several textbooks on Agricultural Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Pharmafoods, and Environmental Sciences. He is an editorial board member of many international journals and serves as a reviewer to many doubleblind peer review journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, PLOS One, Nature, American Chemistry Society, Bentham Science Publishers etc. He is a member of many scientific and professional bodies including American Society for Microbiology, Biotechnology Society of Nigeria, and Nigerian Society for Microbiology, and is presently the General/Executive Secretary of Nigerian Young Academy. He is the National coordinator for South-West Nigerian Society for Microbiology. He has won a lot of international recognition and also acted as a keynote speaker delivering invited talk/position paper at various universities, research institutes, and several centers of excellence that span across several continents of the globe. He has over the last fifteen years built strong working collaborations with reputable research groups in numerous and leading universities across the globe. He is the convener for Recent Advances in Biotechnology, which is an annual international conference where renown microbiologists and biotechnologists come together to share their latest discoveries. He is the president and founder of the Nigerian Post-Harvest and Food Biotechnology Society.

丹尼爾·赫夫特是來自德國的食品工程師。他在東西法倫-利佩技術大學獲得了專攻穀物技術的學士學位，並在雷丁大學獲得碩士學位，目前在伯明翰大學進行研究。他曾獲得伯明翰大學的研究獎學金和研究隸屬關係。他在食品行業擁有多年的豐富經驗，曾在多家公司工作。他的專長是食品工藝設計和工程。他是Rheality Ltd.的創始人及前首席技術官，該公司利用基於聲學感測和機器學習的創新技術進行流變學測量。丹尼爾也是農業工程師協會的食品和飲料工程特別興趣小組的創始人及現任主席。自2018年以來，他獲得了農業工程師協會的特許工程師專業認可。他還參與德國食品技術協會（GDL e.V.）和物理學會（IOP）的工作。

查爾斯·奧盧瓦塞恩·阿德圖恩吉目前是尼日利亞埃多州大學烏扎伊魯（EDSU）科學學院微生物學系的教職員，利用生物技術和微生物生物過程的應用來實現可持續發展目標和農業革命，通過優質教學、研究和社區發展。他曾擔任知識產權和技術轉移的代理主任、微生物學系主任、科學學院副院長，目前是科學學院的資助委員會主席和代理院長。他是伊巴丹珍貴基石大學生物技術中心的訪問教授和執行主任，並且是南非德班生物技術與食品科學系的訪問科學家。他目前是許多全球學術機構的外部考官，特別是針對博士和碩士研究生。他曾獲得來自知名學術機構的多項科學獎項和資助，如印度科學與工業研究委員會（CSIR）、印度生物技術部（DBT）、意大利科學世界學院（TWAS）、荷蘭獎學金計劃（NPF）、以色列國際發展合作機構、英國皇家工程學院等。他在國內外的同行評審期刊上發表了許多科學期刊文章和會議論文，擁有超過450篇手稿和4項科學專利。他最近在2019年至今的SciVal/SCOPUS排名中被評為尼日利亞前500名高產作者中的第20名。他的研究興趣包括微生物學、生物技術、收穫後管理、食品科學、生物信息學和納米技術。他最近還被任命為尼日利亞生物信息學和基因組學網絡協會的主席和理事會主席。他最近被任命為環境與公共衛生研究與發展國際隸屬與培訓中心的主任。他目前是Wiley and Sons、Elsevier、Taylor and Francis等出版社的系列編輯，編輯多本有關農業生物技術、納米技術、藥食和環境科學的教科書。他是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，並擔任多本由Elsevier、Springer、Taylor and Francis、Wiley、PLOS One、Nature、美國化學學會、Bentham Science Publishers等出版的雙盲同行評審期刊的審稿人。他是多個科學和專業機構的成員，包括美國微生物學會、尼日利亞生物技術學會和尼日利亞微生物學會，目前是尼日利亞青年學院的總/執行秘書。他是西南尼日利亞微生物學會的全國協調員。他獲得了許多國際認可，並曾作為主題演講者在各大學、研究機構和多個卓越中心發表邀請演講/立場論文，這些機構遍及全球多個大陸。在過去的十五年中，他與全球多所知名大學的研究團隊建立了強有力的合作關係。他是“生物技術最新進展”國際年會的召集人，該會議匯聚了知名微生物學家和生物技術專家分享他們的最新發現。他是尼日利亞收穫後和食品生物技術學會的創始人及會長。