Egg Classifier
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 PROBLEM BACKGROUND Egg is considered as one of the most typical food stuff in the country due to its affordability and high nutritive value. Egg’s size is a very important quality parameter for the consumers’ evaluation preferences. Consumers would want eggs with accurate designated size as much as possible. Correct size classification is also useful for the people in a poultry business in terms of sorting, packaging planning and in imposing the price for a certain size.
The size of the egg is mostly determined by its mass. However, this method is not efficient since there are eggs that are small but have a bigger mass than some of those bigger ones and vice versa. The volume-based method was proved to be of much reliable and efficient one. The two most common methods of volume measurement which are the water displacement method and gas displacement method are not practical to use. The first one takes a little time but may be harmful to the egg since it can spoil the egg when it is submerge into water and the later one is not harmful but is time consuming. Another method is by measuring the outer dimensions of the egg using a caliper. However, this method is subject to human error and may not be efficient way of measuring the volume.
This research project aims to solve the said problems. The volume of the egg was measured using image processing method. Water displacement method was also performed as reference to the accuracy of the volume computed in image processing method.
The proponents had a difficulty in integrating the two web cameras as only one device handle is returned during run time which means that the same image is captured by the two web cameras. As a solution for this problem, another class was created for the other camera. This class was called upon the start of the program. Another problem is the accuracy of the volume computed based on the captured image since there are instances
INTRODUCTION
1.1 PROBLEM BACKGROUND Egg is considered as one of the most typical food stuff in the country due to its affordability and high nutritive value. Egg’s size is a very important quality parameter for the consumers’ evaluation preferences. Consumers would want eggs with accurate designated size as much as possible. Correct size classification is also useful for the people in a poultry business in terms of sorting, packaging planning and in imposing the price for a certain size.
The size of the egg is mostly determined by its mass. However, this method is not efficient since there are eggs that are small but have a bigger mass than some of those bigger ones and vice versa. The volume-based method was proved to be of much reliable and efficient one. The two most common methods of volume measurement which are the water displacement method and gas displacement method are not practical to use. The first one takes a little time but may be harmful to the egg since it can spoil the egg when it is submerge into water and the later one is not harmful but is time consuming. Another method is by measuring the outer dimensions of the egg using a caliper. However, this method is subject to human error and may not be efficient way of measuring the volume.
This research project aims to solve the said problems. The volume of the egg was measured using image processing method. Water displacement method was also performed as reference to the accuracy of the volume computed in image processing method.
The proponents had a difficulty in integrating the two web cameras as only one device handle is returned during run time which means that the same image is captured by the two web cameras. As a solution for this problem, another class was created for the other camera. This class was called upon the start of the program. Another problem is the accuracy of the volume computed based on the captured image since there are instances
References: and Appendices | 1 day | February 19, 2010 | February 19, 2010 | Isles | | PRESENTATION AND DEFENSE | Completion of Project Documents | 1 week | February 25, 2010 | March 2, 2010 | de la Cerna | | Finalization of Project Documents | 1 week | March 3, 2010 | March 9, 2010 | Dabon and Isles | |