Summary: Quality control using continuous monitoring from images is emerging as an active research area. These applications require adaptive statistical techniques in order to detect and isolate process abnormalities. A novel approach is introduced for monitoring schemes in the setting of image data when the quality is associated with uniform pixel gray-scales. The proposed approach requires the definition of a statistic which takes into account both the spatial dependency and the changes in local variability. An application on paper surface demonstrates how the monitoring scheme performs in practical applications.