Description and Classification of Leather Defects Based on Principal Component Analysis

The accurate extraction and classification of leather defects is an important guarantee for the automation and quality evaluation of leather industry. Aiming at the problem of data classification of leather defects,a hierarchical classification for defects is proposed.Firstly,samples are collected according to the method of minimum rectangle,and defects are extracted by image processing method.According to the geometric features of representation, they are divided into dot,line and surface for rough classification. From analysing the data which extracting the defects of geometry,gray and texture,the dominating characteristics can be acquired. Each type of defect by choosing different and representative characteristics,reducing the dimension of the data,and through these characteristics of clustering to achieve convergence effectively,realize extracted accurately,and digitized the defect characteristics,eventually establish the database. The results showthat this method can achieve more than 90% accuracy and greatly improve the accuracy of classification.