Determining Fiber Orientation Distribution in Nonwovens with Hough Transform Techniques

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 563-571

  xu, Bugao ^a   yu, Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FABRICS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TENSILE TESTING; TEXTILE FIBERS;

FIBER ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION; HOUGH TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE; IMAGE NOISE; SLOPE INTERCEPT FORM; ZERO SPAN TENSILE TESTING METHOD;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

FABRICS, NONWOVEN; FIBRE ORIENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031204142     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: 17467748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004051759706700803     Document Type: Article

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