Method and apparatus for determining media thickness in a feeder section of an image production device

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device for determining media thickness in a feeder section of an image production device, the instructions comprising:

• receiving one or more multi-dimensional images of a media stack from an imaging device, the media stack including one or more media clips that each contain a plurality of media sheets;
• deriving a multi-dimensional feature signal from the received one or more multi-dimensional images;
• converting the derived multi-dimensional feature signal to a one-dimensional feature signal;
• estimating media clip thickness using the one-dimensional signal;
• estimating media sheet thickness using the estimated media clip thickness;
• and
• adjusting at least one image production device parameter based on the estimated media sheet thickness.