Abstract
This study examined the potential of hyperspectral techniques for the rapid detection of characteristic indicators of yak meat freshness during the oxidation of yak meat. TVB-N values were determined by significance analysis as the characteristic index of yak meat freshness. Reflectance spectral information of yak meat samples (400-1000 nm) was collected by hyperspectral technology. The raw spectral information was processed by 5 methods and then principal component regression (PCR), support vector machine regression (SVR) and partial least squares regression (PLSR) were used to build regression models. The results indicated that the full-wavelength based on PCR, SVR, and PLSR models were shown greater performance in the prediction of TVB-N content. In order to improve the computational efficiency of the model, 9 and 11 characteristic wavelengths were selected from 128 wavelengths by successive projection algorithm (SPA) and competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), respectively. The CARS-PLSR model exhibited excellent predictive power and model stability.