Effect of yarn appearance on apparent quality of weft knitted fabric

Journal of the Textile Institute

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Semnani, Dariush ^a   Latifi, M ^a   Tehran, M A ^a   Pourdeyhimi, B ^b   Merati, A A ^c  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apparent quality; Artificial neural network; Image analysis; Knitted fabric; Yarn

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE; FABRIC CONSTRUCTION; KNITTED FABRIC; WEFT KNITTING;

EID: 27844533547     PISSN: 00405000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1533/joti.2005.0003     Document Type: Article

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