In-oven camera and computer vision systems and methods

A cooking appliance comprising:

• a heating element disposed within a cooking chamber of the cooking appliance and operable to selectively emit waves at any of a plurality of powers and/or peak wavelengths;
• a camera operable to capture an image of at least a portion of the cooking chamber;
• and
• a computing device operable to:
• supply power to the heating element to vary the power and/or peak wavelength of the emitted waves and generate heat within the cooking chamber;
• and
• instruct the camera to capture the image when the heating element is emitting at a stabilized power and/or peak wavelength;
• wherein the heating element is operable to emit at the stabilized power and/or peak wavelength, generating light within the cooking chamber having a corresponding stabilized color temperature and/or power;
• and
• wherein a brightness of the captured image is adjusted, at least in part, by compensating for a calculated stabilized power and by adjusting an effective exposure during image acquisition using a calculated stabilized power.

A cooking appliance comprising:

• a heating element disposed within a cooking chamber of the cooking appliance and operable to selectively emit waves at any of a plurality of powers and/or peak wavelengths;
• a camera operable to capture an image of at least a portion of the cooking chamber;
• and
• a computing device operable to:
• supply power to the heating element to vary the power and/or peak wavelength of the emitted waves and generate heat within the cooking chamber;
• and
• instruct the camera to capture the image when the heating element is emitting at a stabilized power and/or peak wavelength;
• initiate an image capture sequence;
• pause a heating algorithm executed by a recipe execution engine;
• drive the heating element to an image capture state at a stabilized power and/or peak wavelength;
• detect the image capture state;
• capture the image;
• and
• resume the heating algorithm.