VIP3D - an application of image processing technology for quality control in the food industry

Author

Davies, Roger ; Heleno, Paulo ; Correia, Bento ; Dinis, João

Author_Institution

Optoelectronics Dept, Instituto Nacional de Engenharia a Tecnologia Ind., Lisbon, Portugal

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

293

Abstract

This paper describes the VIP3D machine, developed under contract for an industrial bakery that supplies pre-cooked, frozen bread to supermarkets, hotels and other commercial outlets throughout Europe. The machine, developed and built entirely by INETI´s Optoelectronics Department, is designed to make rapid and reliable measurements of bread loaves for the purpose of production quality control. This paper focuses on the problems encountered and the machine vision solutions developed, to obtain accurate 3-D measurements of the different types and sizes of loaves produced

Keywords

computer vision; computerised instrumentation; food processing industry; image processing; production control; quality control; size measurement; 3D measurements; Europe; INETI; VIP3D; VIP3D machine; bread loaves; food industry; hotels; image processing technology; industrial bakery; machine vision solutions; pre-cooked frozen bread; production quality control; quality control; reliable measurements; size measurement; supermarkets; Food industry; Food technology; Image processing; Length measurement; Machine vision; Machinery production industries; Particle measurements; Quality control; Shape measurement; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6725-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2001.959011

Filename

959011