Review of Fabric Defect Detection Based on Computer Vision

In textile inspection field,the fabric defect refers to the destruction of the texture structure on the fabric surface.The technology of computer vision makes it possible to detect defects automatically.Firstly,the overall structure of the fabric defect detection system is introduced and some mature detection systems are studied.Then the fabric detection methods are summarized,including structural methods,statistical methods,frequency domain methods,model methods and deep learning methods.In addition,the evaluation criteria of automatic detection algorithms are discussed and the characteristics of various algorithms are analyzed.Finally,the research status of this field is discussed,and the future development trend is predicted.

Statistic Learning-based Defect Detection for Twill Fabrics

Template matching methods have been widely utilized to detect fabric defects in textile quality control. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to design a flexible classifier for distinguishing flaws from twill fabrics by statistically learning from the normal fabric texture. Statistical information of natural and normal texture of the fabric can be extracted via collecting and analyzing the gray image. On the basis of this, both judging threshold and template are acquired and updated adaptively in real-time according to the real textures of fabric, which promises more flexibility and universality. The algorithms are experimented with images of fault free and faulty textile samples.

Detection of Fabric Defects with Fuzzy Label Co-occurrence Matrix Set

Co-occurrence matrices have been successfully applied in texture classification and segmentation.However,they have poor computation performance in real-time application.In this paper,the efficient co-occurrence matrix solution for defect detection is focused on,and a method of Fuzzy Label Co-occurrence Matrix (FLCM) set is proposed.In this method,all gray levels are supposed to subject to some fuzzy sets called fuzzy tonal sets and three defective features are defined.Features of FLCM set with various parameters are combined for the final judgment.Unlike many methods,image acquired for learning hasn't to be entirely free of defects.It is shown that the method produces high accuracy and can be a competent candidate for plain colour fabric defect detection.

An Enhanced Nonlocal Self-Similarity Technique for Fabric Defect Detection

Fabric defect detection has been an indispensable and important link in fabric production,many studies on the development of vision based automated inspection techniques have been reported.The main drawback of existing methods is that they can only inspect a particular type of fabric pattern in controlled environment.Recently,nonlocal self-similarity(NSS)based method is used for fabric defect detection.This method achieves good defect detection performance for small defects with uneven illumination,the disadvantage of NNS based method is poor for detecting linear defects.Based on this reason,we improve NSS based defect detection method by introducing a gray density function,namely an enhanced NSS(ENSS)based defect detection method.Meanwhile,mean filter is applied to smooth images and suppress noise.Experimental results prove the validity and feasibility of the proposed NLRA algorithm.

Automatic Image Inspection of Fabric Defects Based on Optimal Gabor Filter

An effective method for automatic image inspection of fabric defects is presented. The proposed method relies on a tuned 2D-Gabor filter and quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization( QPSO) algorithm. The proposed method consists of two main steps:( 1) training and( 2) image inspection. In the image training process,the parameters of the 2D-Gabor filters can be tuned by QPSO algorithm to match with the texture features of a defect-free template. In the inspection process, each sample image under inspection is convoluted with the selected optimized Gabor filter.Then a simple thresholding scheme is applied to generating a binary segmented result. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated by using a standard fabric defects database from Cotton Incorporated. Good experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of proposed method. To further evaluate the performance of the proposed method,a real time test is performed based on an on-line defect detection system. The real time test results further demonstrate the effectiveness, stability and robustness of the proposed method,which is suitable for industrial production.

Fabric Defect Detection Using Independent Component Analysis and Phase Congruency

A novel method based on independent component analysis and phase congruency is proposed for detecting defects in textile fabric images. By independent component, we can obtain textile structural features of fabric-free images. By phase congru- ency, structure information is reduced, which can distinguish the defect region from the defect-free regions. Finally, we have the detecting result from binary image which is obtained by a thresh- old step, Compared with other algorithms, the proposed method not only has robustness with high detection rate, but also detects various types of defects quite well.

Semantic Segmentation Using DeepLabv3+ Model for Fabric Defect Detection

Currently, numerous automatic fabric defect detection algorithms have been proposed. Traditional machine vision algorithms that set separate parameters for different textures and defects rely on the manual design of corresponding features to complete the detection. To overcome the limitations of traditional algorithms, deep learning-based correlative algorithms can extract more complex image features and perform better in image classification and object detection. A pixel-level defect segmentation methodology using DeepLabv3+, a classical semantic segmentation network, is proposed in this paper. Based on ResNet-18,ResNet-50 and Mobilenetv2, three DeepLabv3+ networks are constructed, which are trained and tested from data sets produced by capturing or publicizing images. The experimental results show that the performance of three DeepLabv3+ networks is close to one another on the four indicators proposed(Precision, Recall, F1-score and Accuracy), proving them to achieve defect detection and semantic segmentation, which provide new ideas and technical support for fabric defect detection.

Scheme for Designing the 1-D Convolution Window of Gabor Filter

A scheme for designing one-dimensional (1-D) convolution window of the circularly symmetric Gabor filter which is directly obtained from frequency domain is proposed. This scheme avoids the problem of choosing the sampling frequency in the spatial domain, or the sampling frequency must be determined when the window data is obtained by means of sampling the Gabor function, the impulse response of the Gabor filter. In this scheme, the discrete Fourier transform of the Gabor function is obtained by discretizing its Fourier transform. The window data can be derived by minimizing the sums of the squares of the complex magnitudes of difference between its discrete Fourier transform and the Gabor function's discrete Fourier transform. Not only the full description of this scheme but also its application to fabric defect detection are given in this paper. Experimental results show that the 1-D convolution windows can be used to significantly reduce computational cost and greatly ensure the quality of the Gabor filters. So this scheme can be used in some real-time processing systems.

Global Fabric Defect Detection Based on Unsupervised Characterization

Fabric texture intelligent analysis comprises the following characteristics:objective detection results,high detection efficiency,and accuracy.It is significantly vital to replace manual inspection for smart green manufacturing in the textile industry,such as quality control and rating,and online testing.For detecting the global image,an unsupervised method is proposed to characterize the woven fabric texture image,which is the combination of principal component analysis(PCA)and dictionary learning.First of all,the PCA approach is used to reduce the dimension of fabric samples,the obtained eigenvector is used as the initial dictionary,and then the dictionary learning method is operated on the defect-free region to get the standard templates.Secondly,the standard templates are optimized by choosing the appropriate dictionary size to construct a fabric texture representat ion model that can effectively characterize the defec-free texture region,while ineffectively representing the defective sector.That is to say,through the mechanism of identifying normal texture from imperfect texture,a learned dictionary with robustness and discrimination is obtained to adapt the fabric texture.Thirdly,after matching the detected image with the standard templates,the average filter is used to remove the noise and suppress the background texture,while retaining and enhancing the defect region.In the final part,the image segmentation is operated to identify the defect.The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can adequately inspect fabrics with defects such as holes,oil stains,skipping,other defective types,and non-defective materials,while the detection results are good and the algorithrm can be operated flexibly.