Wouter Saeys

Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Period of stay: 30/04/2007-26/10/2007

Institute of Origin:
Division MeBioS (Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors)
Department of Biosystems
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 30 Box 2456
B - 3001 Heverlee, Belgium

Contact person at Matforsk:
Tormod Naes, Professor, Ph.D.

Topic of Work:
"Research on more mechanistic pre-processing and calibration methods for spectroscopic analysis of biological products with applications in the agricultural and food industry"

Field of research:

• Optical measurements:
• Spectroscopy (Vis/NIR, MIR, Fluorescence)
• Hyper- and multispectral imaging
• Optical properties measurement
• Modelling of light transport in particulate systems and biological tissues
• Multivariate Analysis & Chemometrics (PLS, LS-SVMs, Functional data analysis)
• Process monitoring and control based on optical measurements
• System Identification and Control of agricultural machinery (mechatronics)

Journal publications:

• De Temmerman J; Saeys W; Nicolaï B; Ramon H (2007). Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy as a Tool for the In-line Determination of the Moisture Concentration in Extruded Semolina Pasta. Biosystems Engineering. Accepted for publication
• Engelen K; Ramon H; Saeys W; Franssens W; Anthonis J (2007). Positioning and tuning of viscous damper on flexible structure. Journal of Sound and Vibration. Accepted for publication
• Xing J; Saeys W; De Baerdemaeker J (2007). Combination of chemometric tools and image processing for bruise detection on apples. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 56, 1–13 doi:10.1016/j.compag.2006.12.002
• Coen T; Saeys W; Ramon H; De Baerdemaeker J (2006). Optimizing the tuning parameters of least squares support vector machines regression for NIR spectra. Journal of Chemometrics, 20 (5), 184-192. doi:10.1002/cem.989
• Saeys W; Mouazen A M; Ramon H (2005). Potential for onsite and online analysis of pig manure using visible and near infrared spectroscopy. Biosystems Engineering, 91 (4), 393-402 doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2005.05.001
• Saeys W; Xing J; De Baerdemaeker J; Ramon H (2005). Comparison of transflectance and reflectance to analyse hog manures. J. Near Infrared Spectrosc., 13, 99-108. http://www.nirpublications.com/abs/J13_0099.html
• Mouazen A M; Saeys W; Xing J; De Baerdemaeker J; Ramon H (2005). Near infrared spectroscopy for agricultural materials: an instrument comparison. J. Near Infrared Spectrosc., 13, 87-98 http://www.nirpublications.com/abs/J13_0087.html
• Mouazen A M; Anthonis J; Saeys W; Ramon H (2004). An automatic depth control system for on-line measurement of spatial variation in soil compaction, part 1: sensor design for measurement of frame height variation from soil surface. Biosystems Engineering, 89 (2), 139-150 doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2004.06.005
• Saeys W; Mouazen A M; Anthonis J; Ramon H (2004). An automatic depth control system for on-line measurement of spatial variation in soil compaction, part 2: modelling of depth control system. Biosystems Engineering, 89 (3), 267-280. doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2004.06.009
• Anthonis J; Mouazen A M; Saeys W; Ramon H (2004). An automatic depth control system for on-line measurement of spatial variation in soil compaction, part 3: design of depth control system. Biosystems Engineering, 89 (1), 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2004.06.013
• Saeys W; Darius P; Ramon H (2004). Potential for on-site analysis of hog manure using a visual and near infrared diode array reflectance spectrometer. J. Near Infrared Spectrosc. 12, 299–310 http://www.nirpublications.com/abs/J12_0299.html

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