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Secondly, an improved skeleton extraction algorithm is employed to mitigate the bifurcation errors inherent in original skeleton extraction algorithms while simultaneously acquiring 3D point cloud data of the citrus surface. Finally, the least squares progressive iterative approximation algorithm is applied to approximate the ideal surface curve; subsequently, principal component analysis is used to derive the normals of this ideally fitted curve. The deviation between each point (along its corresponding normal direction) and the actual geometric characteristic curve is then adopted as a quantitative index for separation lines positioning. The average similarity between the extracted separation lines and the manually defined standard separation lines reaches 92.5%. In total, 95% of the points on the separation lines obtained by this method have an error of less than 4 pixels. 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