Development of Real-Time Vision-Based Fabric Inspection System

Author

Cho, Che-Seung ; Chung, Byeong-Mook ; Park, Moo-Jin

Author_Institution

Lab. of Artificial Intelligent Control, Yeungnam Univ., Gyongsan, South Korea

Volume

52

Issue

4

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1073

Lastpage

1079

Abstract

Quality inspection of textile fabric products is an important problem for fabric manufacturers. This paper presents an automatic vision-based system for the quality control of web textile fabrics. Typical web material is 1–3 m wide and is driven with speeds ranging from 20 to 200 m/min. At present, the quality inspection process is manually performed by experts. However, they cannot detect more than 60% of the overall defects for the fabric if it is moving faster than 30 m/min. To increase the quality and homogeneity of fabrics, an automated visual inspection system is needed for better productivity. Currently, the existing inspection systems are too expensive for small companies. In this paper, a PC-based real-time inspection system is proposed with benefits of low cost and high detection rate. The proposed algorithm showed good results for several types of fabric defects.

Keywords

automatic optical inspection; computer vision; cost reduction; fabrics; quality control; real-time systems; textile products; automated visual inspection system; cost reduction; fabric inspection system; quality control; quality inspection; real-time vision; web textile fabrics; Fabrics; Inspection; Intelligent systems; Machine intelligence; Machine vision; Optical devices; Productivity; Real time systems; Textile industry; Textile technology; Automated inspection; fabric defects; textile fabric inspection; vision-based system;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIE.2005.851648

Filename

1490697