Development of an optical method for determining the glassiness of brewing wheat for the production of environmentally friendly beer

Abstract A method has been developed for the objective assessment of the vitreousness of barley using computer vision technologies. An algorithm has been developed for determining the total glassiness of a barley sample based on the analysis of its digital images. The influence of the orientation of objects on the results of the algorithm is evaluated. The repeatability of the results for the same orientation of objects is estimated. For the first time, the function of evaluating the evenness of samples by the indicator “glassiness” has been implemented.