Determining Gravimetric Bark Content in Cotton with Machine Vision

摘要

A method is needed to accurately and rapidly and rapidly determine the gravimetric bark content of a cotton sample. Gravimetric bark content represents the percent bark mass through- out the volume of a cotton sample. The current method for measuring gravimetric bark content is a labor intensive, lengthy process. Machine vision, on the other hand, is a fast, inexpensive method to measure this bulk cotton property. Ten acquired images of surfaces throughout each sample are used. Classical digital image processing tech- niques isolate foreign matter regions in monochrome video images.