A Computer Vision Method for Determining Length of Cheese Shreds

A computer-vision based system was used to obtain images of shredded cheese. The images were processed by morphological transformation algorithms such as dilation and erosion to smooth the image edge contours. The smoothed image was skeletonized. Cheese shred lengths were determined from skeletonized images using syntactic methods. This method was successful in recognizing individual shreds even when shreds were touching or overlapping. Shred lengths calculated from the processed images compared very well with those measured manually.