A Block-Processing Approach Using Texture Analysis for Fabric Defect Detection

Abstract

The quality control is an essential step in fabric industries. Detectdefects in the early stages can reduce costs and increase the qualityof the products. Currently, this task is mainly done by humans,whose judgment can be affected by fatigue. Computer vision-basedtechniques can automatically detect defects, reducing the need forhuman intervention. In this context, this work proposes an imageblock-processing approach, where we compare the Segmentation-Based Fractal Texture Analysis, Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix,and Local Binary Pattern in the feature extraction step. Aimingto show the efficiency of this approach for the problem, these resultswere compared with the same algorithms without the blockprocessingapproach. A Support Vector Machine optimized by Grid-Search Algorithm was used to classify the fabrics. The databaseused, which is available online, is composed of 479 images fromsamples with defects and without it. The results show that thisblock processing approach can improve the classification results,achieving 100% in this work.