Automated Fabric Defect Inspection: A Survey of Classifiers
It provides a comparative overview for researchers in automated fabric defect inspection, but is incremental as it surveys existing methods without introducing new techniques.
This survey paper reviews and compares classifiers used in automated fabric defect inspection systems, addressing the need for accurate and efficient quality control in the textile industry by analyzing performance metrics to help researchers evaluate options.
Quality control at each stage of production in textile industry has become a key factor to retaining the existence in the highly competitive global market. Problems of manual fabric defect inspection are lack of accuracy and high time consumption, where early and accurate fabric defect detection is a significant phase of quality control. Computer vision based, i.e. automated fabric defect inspection systems are thought by many researchers of different countries to be very useful to resolve these problems. There are two major challenges to be resolved to attain a successful automated fabric defect inspection system. They are defect detection and defect classification. In this work, we discuss different techniques used for automated fabric defect classification, then show a survey of classifiers used in automated fabric defect inspection systems, and finally, compare these classifiers by using performance metrics. This work is expected to be very useful for the researchers in the area of automated fabric defect inspection to understand and evaluate the many potential options in this field.