Abstract:An image processing method of cutting sports upper for automated cutting based on HALCON was proposed. The standard printed upper image was taken by industry camera. The median filtering method is used for image smoothing to reduce the noise interference. In order to locate the target object and the target area in the image, use threshold segmentation for the standard upper image. Canny edge detection of the extracted upper printed image to obtain the required standard upper cut contour profile image information. The uncut upper image was taken, and using the median filtering method to smooth image. Using pyramid hierarchical search strategy and Hausdorff distance as the best match to find templates for similarity measures, contour profile image information of uncut upper was obtained by affine transformation. This system has important practical significance for automatic and intelligent cutting of shoe-making industry.