A method and system to monitor randomly oriented objects on a process line
are disclosed. A color camera is used initially to collect a set of
reference images of at least one reference object. The reference images
represent various spatial orientations of the reference object. The
reference object serves as the standard for the process. The reference
images are stored in a computer-based platform. The color camera is then
used to capture images of monitored objects as the monitored objects pass
by the color camera on a process line. The monitored objects may have a
random spatial orientation with respect to the color camera as the
monitored objects pass through the field-of-view of the color camera. The
captured images of the monitored objects are processed by the
computer-based platform and compared to the reference images in order to
determine if certain characteristic parameters of the monitored objects
have deviated from those same characteristic parameters of the reference
object. If so, the process may be adjusted to correct for the deviations
in order to bring the process back into tolerance.