CutSurf: a Software Tool for Cut Surface Evaluation of White Cheese

Abstract

This paper presents a software tool named CutSurf. The tool was designed to process BMP images and calculate the ratio of white over all pixels into binary images. The main purpose of processing is to make an objective evaluation of cut surface of white brined cheese. Cut surface of five white cheeses of sheep milk were examine by organoleptic evaluation and by processing of microscopic images with CutSurf. The results show that CutSurf could be used for organoleptic evaluation of white brined cheese cut surface.