Flour quality control using image processing

This document presents the description of an application for the automatic visual inspection of flour quality. The flour quality depends on the number of impurities detected in the flour after a predefined settling time. The software was developed with IMAQ Vision for LabVTEW software-developing tool and it uses a commercial camera as image acquisition device. The paper along its sections describes the main system blocks. An illustrative example is used for better description of the several steps during the digital processing of the acquired images.