Fabric defect detection using the wavelet transform in an ARM processor

Small devices used in our day life are constructed with powerful architectures that can be used for industrial applications when requiring portability and communication facilities. We present in this paper an example of the use of an embedded system, the Zeus epic 520 single board computer, for defect detection in textiles using image processing. We implement the Haar wavelet transform using the embedded visual C++ 4.0 compiler for Windows CE 5. The algorithm was tested for defect detection using images of fabrics with five types of defects. An average of 95% in terms of correct defect detection was obtained, achieving a similar performance than using processors with float point arithmetic calculations

An Extended Review on Fabric Defects and Its Detection Techniques

In Textile Industry, Quality of the Fabric is the main important factor. At the initial stage, it is very essential to identify and avoid the fabrics faults/defects and hence human perception consumes lot of time and cost to reveal the fabrics faults. Now-a-days Automated Inspection Systems are very useful to decrease the fault prediction time and gives best visualizing clarity- based on computer vision and image processing techniques. This paper made an extended review about the quality parameters in the fiber-to-fabric process, fabrics defects detection terminologies applied on major three clusters of fabric defects knitting, woven and sewing fabric defects. And this paper also explains about the statistical performance measures which are used to analyze the defect detection process. Also, comparison among the methods proposed in the field of fabric defect detection

Surface reconstruction of wear in carpets by using a wavelet edge detector

Carpet manufacturers have wear labels assigned to their products by human experts who evaluate carpet samples subjected to accelerated wear in a test device. There is considerable industrial and academic interest in going from human to automated evaluation, which should be less cumbersome and more objective. In this paper, we present image analysis research on videos of carpet surfaces scanned with a 3D laser. The purpose is obtaining good depth Images for an automated system that should have a high percentage of correct assessments for a wide variety of carpets. The innovation is the use of a wavelet edge detector to obtain a more continuously defined surface shape. The evaluation is based on how well the algorithms allow a good linear ranking and a good discriminance of consecutive wear labels. The results show an improved linear ranking for most carpet types, for two carpet types the results are quite significant

An Approach for Feature extraction of Fabric using wavelet transform & defect detection using Genetic algorithm

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A Public Fabric Database for Defect Detection Methods and Results

[EN] The use of image processing for the detection and classification of defects has been a reality for some time in science and industry. New methods are continually being presented to improve every aspect of this process. However, these new approaches are applied to a small, private collection of images, which makes a real comparative study of these methods very difficult. The objective of this paper was to compile a public annotated benchmark, that is, an extensive set of images with and without defects, and make these public, to enable the direct comparison of detection and classification methods. Moreover, different methods are reviewed and one of these is applied to the set of images; the results of which are also presented in this paper.The authors thank for the financial support provided by IVACE (Institut Valencia de Competitivitat Empresarial, Spain) and FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, Europe), throughout the projects: AUTOVIMOTION and INTELITEX.Silvestre-Blanes, J.; Albero Albero, T.; Miralles, I.; Pérez-Llorens, R.; Moreno, J. (2019). A Public Fabric Database for Defect Detection Methods and Results. AUTEX Research Journal. 19(4):363-374. https://doi.org/10.2478/aut-2019-0035S36337419

A VISION-BASED QUALITY INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR FABRIC DEFECT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION

Published ThesisQuality inspection of textile products is an important issue for fabric manufacturers. It is desirable to produce the highest quality goods in the shortest amount of time possible. Fabric faults or defects are responsible for nearly 85% of the defects found by the garment industry. Manufacturers recover only 45 to 65% of their profits from second or off-quality goods. There is a need for reliable automated woven fabric inspection methods in the textile industry. Numerous methods have been proposed for detecting defects in textile. The methods are generally grouped into three main categories according to the techniques they use for texture feature extraction, namely statistical approaches, spectral approaches and model-based approaches. In this thesis, we study one method from each category and propose their combinations in order to get improved fabric defect detection and classification accuracy. The three chosen methods are the grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) from the statistical category, the wavelet transform from the spectral category and the Markov random field (MRF) from the model-based category. We identify the most effective texture features for each of those methods and for different fabric types in order to combine them. Using GLCM, we identify the optimal number of features, the optimal quantisation level of the original image and the optimal intersample distance to use. We identify the optimal GLCM features for different types of fabrics and for three different classifiers. Using the wavelet transform, we compare the defect detection and classification performance of features derived from the undecimated discrete wavelet and those derived from the dual-tree complex wavelet transform. We identify the best features for different types of fabrics. Using the Markov random field, we study the performance for fabric defect detection and classification of features derived from different models of Gaussian Markov random fields of order from 1 through 9. For each fabric type we identify the best model order. Finally, we propose three combination schemes of the best features identified from the three methods and study their fabric detection and classification performance. They lead generally to improved performance as compared to the individual methods, but two of them need further improvement

N-way modeling for wavelet filter determination in Multivariate Image Analysis

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Defect detection on patterned jacquard fabric

The techniques for defect detection on plain (unpatterned) fabrics have been well developed nowadays. This paper is on developing visual inspection methods for defect detection on patterned fabrics. A review on some defect detection methods on patterned fabrics is given. Then, a new method for patterned fabric inspection called Golden Image Subtraction (GIS) is introduced. GIS is an efficient and fast method, which can segment out the defective regions on patterned fabric effectively. An improved version of the GIS method using wavelet transform is also given. This research results contribute to the development of an automated fabric inspection machine for the textile industry.published_or_final_versio