Evaluation of a Digital Image-signal Approach on the Automatic Measurement of Cotton Yarn Snarls

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1151-1159

  Xu, Bin Gang ^a   Tao, Xiao Ming ^a   Murrells, Charlotte Marion ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

image processing; signal processing; twist liveliness; yarn snarl

Indexed keywords

COTTON; IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WOOL;

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; COMPUTER METHODS; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; DIGITAL IMAGE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PER UNIT LENGTH; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; TWIST LIVELINESS;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COTTON YARN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RING SPINNING; TESTING INSTRUMENT; TWIST;

EID: 77954225933     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517509352526     Document Type: Article

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