Detection and Classification of Defects in Knitted Fabric Structures

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 295-300

  Shady, Ebraheem ^a   Gowayed, Yasser ^a   Abouiiana, Mohamed ^b   Youssef, Safinaz ^b   Pastore, Christopher ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fabric defects; fast fourier transform; image processing; knit fabrics; neural networks

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FABRIC DEFECTS; INDUCED DEFECTS;

KNIT FABRICS;

CLASSIFICATION; DEFECT; FOURIER TRANSFORM ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNITTED FABRIC; NEURAL NETWORK;

EID: 33746608842     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517506053906     Document Type: Article

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