1990 Volume 46 Issue 10 Pages 460-469
At present, fabric inspection processing depends on human sense of sight. Results of inspection are exclusively influenced with mental and physical conditions of an inspector. In order to economize personnel expenditures and to perform reliable and stable inspections, we have studied the basic of an expert system to inspect fabric defects. In our system, fabric defects are recognized by pattern recognition and the major part of the control of the system depends on an expert system, which is based on a production programming language (OPS83). This system has multi-functions such as image input, image preprocessing, generation of a template, feature extracting of defects, recognition of defects, inference engine, user-interface, and so on. The results obtained from the inspections agreed approximately with initial expectation. In the defects which show only slight differences, we obtained smaller percentages of recognitions.
