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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,130 Views
18 Pages

19 June 2024

Detecting anomalies in texture has become a significant concern across various industrial processes. One prevalent application of this is in inspecting patterned textures, especially in the domain of fabric defect detection, which is a commonly encou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,385 Views
25 Pages

23 June 2022

Fabric anomaly detection (AD) tries to detect anomalies (i.e., defects) in fabrics, and fabric AD approaches are continuously improved with respect to their AD performance. However, developed solutions are known to generalize poorly to previously uns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,880 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2023

The generation of defects during fabric production impacts fabric quality, and fabric production factories can greatly benefit from the automatic detection of fabric defects. Although object detection algorithms based on convolutional neural networks...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
881 Views
7 Pages

Enhancing Fabric Detection and Classification Using YOLOv5 Models

  • Makara Mao,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Ahyoung Lee and
  • Min Hong

The YOLO series is widely recognized for its efficiency in the real-time detection of objects within images and videos. Accurately identifying and classifying fabric types in the textile industry is vital to ensuring quality, managing supply, and inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,353 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2024

The YOLO (You Only Look Once) series is renowned for its real-time object detection capabilities in images and videos. It is highly relevant in industries like textiles, where speed and accuracy are critical. In the textile industry, accurate fabric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,449 Views
13 Pages

Automatic Fabric Defect Detection Method Using PRAN-Net

  • Peiran Peng,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Can Hao,
  • Zhizhong Zhu,
  • Tong Liu and
  • Weihu Zhou

26 November 2020

Fabric defect detection is very important in the textile quality process. Current deep learning algorithms are not effective in detecting tiny and extreme aspect ratio fabric defects. In this paper, we proposed a strong detection method, Priori Ancho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,790 Views
18 Pages

22 June 2022

The traditional manual defect detection method has low efficiency and is time-consuming and laborious. To address this issue, this paper proposed an automatic detection framework for fabric defect detection, which consists of a hardware system and de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,327 Views
14 Pages

10 November 2022

For fabric defect detection, the crucial issue is that large defects can be detected but not small ones, and vice versa, and this symmetric contradiction cannot be solved by a single method, especially for colored fabrics. In this paper, we propose a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
979 Views
18 Pages

25 March 2025

In order to solve the problem of high computational resource consumption in fabric anomaly detection, we propose a lightweight network, GH-YOLOx, which integrates ghost convolutions and hierarchical GHNetV2 backbone together to capture both local and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,747 Views
19 Pages

Fabric Defect Detection in Real World Manufacturing Using Deep Learning

  • Mariam Nasim,
  • Rafia Mumtaz,
  • Muneer Ahmad and
  • Arshad Ali

11 August 2024

Defect detection is very important for guaranteeing the quality and pricing of fabric. A considerable amount of fabric is discarded as waste because of defects, leading to substantial annual losses. While manual inspection has traditionally been the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,524 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2020

This paper proposes a robust fabric defect detection method, based on the improved RefineDet. This is done using the strong object localization ability and good generalization of the object detection model. Firstly, the method uses RefineDet as the b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,064 Views
15 Pages

7 September 2024

In response to the challenges posed by complex background textures and limited hardware resources in fabric defect detection, this study proposes a lightweight fabric defect detection algorithm based on an improved GSL-YOLOv8n model. Firstly, to redu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,442 Views
19 Pages

Research on Seamless Fabric Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8n

  • Qin Sun,
  • Bernd Noche,
  • Zongyi Xie and
  • Bingqiang Huang

4 March 2025

An improved YOLOv8n seamless fabric defect detection model is proposed to solve the current issues in seamless fabric defects in factories in this paper. The improvement in this paper first introduces the SPPF_LSKA module, which not only optimizes th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,953 Views
15 Pages

A Real-Time Fabric Defect Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8

  • Yanxia Jin,
  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Keliang Nan,
  • Songsong Wang,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Zhuangwei Zhang and
  • Xiaozhu Zhang

15 March 2025

Fabric defect detection is a crucial step in ensuring product quality within the textile industry. However, current detection methods face challenges in processing efficiency for high-resolution images, detail recovery during upsampling, and the adap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,964 Views
15 Pages

Automatic Fabric Defect Detection Method Using AC-YOLOv5

  • Yongbin Guo,
  • Xinjian Kang,
  • Junfeng Li and
  • Yuanxun Yang

In the face of detection problems posed by complex textile texture backgrounds, different sizes, and different types of defects, commonly used object detection networks have limitations in handling target sizes. Furthermore, their stability and anti-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
726 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Involution-Based Lightweight Network for Fabric Defect Detection

  • Zhenxia Ke,
  • Lingjie Yu,
  • Chao Zhi,
  • Tao Xue and
  • Yuming Zhang

23 April 2025

For automatic fabric defect detection with deep learning, diverse textures and defect forms are often required for a large training set. However, the computation cost of convolution neural networks (CNNs)-based models is very high. This research prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,856 Views
21 Pages

PRC-Light YOLO: An Efficient Lightweight Model for Fabric Defect Detection

  • Baobao Liu,
  • Heying Wang,
  • Zifan Cao,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Lu Tao,
  • Jingjing Yang and
  • Kaibing Zhang

22 January 2024

Defect detection holds significant importance in improving the overall quality of fabric manufacturing. To improve the effectiveness and accuracy of fabric defect detection, we propose the PRC-Light YOLO model for fabric defect detection and establis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,361 Views
16 Pages

Fabric Defect Detection Using L0 Gradient Minimization and Fuzzy C-Means

  • Huanhuan Zhang,
  • Jinxiu Ma,
  • Junfeng Jing and
  • Pengfei Li

26 August 2019

In this paper, we present a robust and reliable framework based on L0 gradient minimization (LGM) and the fuzzy c-means (FCM) method to detect various fabric defects with diverse textures. In our framework, the L0 gradient minimization is applied to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,735 Views
21 Pages

9 September 2020

Aiming at the influence of uneven illumination on fabric feature extraction and the limitations of traditional frequency-based visual saliency algorithms, we propose a fabric defect detection method based on the combination of illumination correction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,701 Views
16 Pages

22 December 2022

Limited by computing resources of embedded devices, there are problems in the field of fabric defect detection, including small defect size, extremely unbalanced aspect ratio of defect size, and slow detection speed. To address these problems, a slid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,896 Views
14 Pages

In order to solve the problem of defect detection and to contour accurate segmentation of periodic texture fabric images, a fabric defect detection method based on saliency region and similarity location is proposed. Firstly, the image to be detected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,642 Views
21 Pages

A Timestep-Adaptive-Diffusion-Model-Oriented Unsupervised Detection Method for Fabric Surface Defects

  • Shancheng Tang,
  • Zicheng Jin,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Jianhui Lu,
  • Heng Li and
  • Jiqing Yang

1 September 2023

Defect detection is crucial in quality control for fabric production. Deep-learning-based unsupervised reconstruction methods have been recognized universally to address the scarcity of fabric defect samples, high costs of labeling, and insufficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Citations
22,517 Views
18 Pages

2 April 2018

Fabric defect detection is a necessary and essential step of quality control in the textile manufacturing industry. Traditional fabric inspections are usually performed by manual visual methods, which are low in efficiency and poor in precision for l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
279 Views
21 Pages

9 October 2025

Defect detection in textile manufacturing is critically hampered by the inefficiency of manual inspection and the dual constraints of deep learning (DL) approaches. Specifically, DL models suffer from poor generalization, as the rapid iteration of fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2025

Patterned fabrics are characterized by strong periodic and symmetric structures, and defect detection in such materials is essentially the task of identifying local disruptions of global texture symmetry. Conventional low-rank decomposition methods s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,624 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2022

On a global scale, the process of automatic defect detection represents a critical stage of quality control in textile industries. In this paper, a semantic segmentation network using a repeated pattern analysis algorithm is proposed for pixel-level...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,014 Views
16 Pages

Textile Fabric Defect Detection Using Enhanced Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Safe Human–Robot Collaborative Interaction

  • Syed Ali Hassan,
  • Michail J. Beliatis,
  • Agnieszka Radziwon,
  • Arianna Menciassi and
  • Calogero Maria Oddo

2 November 2024

The emergence of modern robotic technology and artificial intelligence (AI) enables a transformation in the textile sector. Manual fabric defect inspection is time-consuming, error-prone, and labor-intensive. This offers a great possibility for apply...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,337 Views
17 Pages

6 February 2020

Generic object detection algorithms for natural images have been proven to have excellent performance. In this paper, fabric defect detection on optical image datasets is systematically studied. In contrast to generic datasets, defect images are mult...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,576 Views
46 Pages

3 April 2025

Automated fabric defect detection is crucial for improving quality control, reducing manual labor, and optimizing efficiency in the textile industry. Traditional inspection methods rely heavily on human oversight, which makes them prone to subjectivi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,757 Views
12 Pages

Wearable Smart Fabric Based on Hybrid E-Fiber Sensor for Real-Time Finger Motion Detection

  • Erhan Zhuo,
  • Ziwen Wang,
  • Xiaochen Chen,
  • Junhao Zou,
  • Yuan Fang,
  • Jiekai Zhuo,
  • Yicheng Li,
  • Jun Zhang and
  • Zidan Gong

3 July 2023

Wearable electronic sensors have attracted considerable interest in hand motion monitoring because of their small size, flexibility, and biocompatibility. However, the range of motion and sensitivity of many sensors are inadequate for complex and pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,240 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2021

Owing to the multi-dimensional complexity of human motions, traditional uniaxial strain sensors lack the accuracy in monitoring dynamic body motions working in different directions, thus multidirectional strain sensors with excellent electromechanica...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,572 Views
20 Pages

Toward Automated Fabric Defect Detection: A Survey of Recent Computer Vision Approaches

  • Rui Carrilho,
  • Ehsan Yaghoubi,
  • José Lindo,
  • Kailash Hambarde and
  • Hugo Proença

20 September 2024

Defect detection is a crucial part of the pipeline in many industries. In the textile industry, it is especially important, as it will affect the quality and price of the final product. However, it is mostly performed by human agents, who have been r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,207 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2018

This paper presents a concept of a Self-sensing Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (SCFRP) system, which integrates the piezoceramic transducers with the common concrete strengthening materials, CFRP fabric. This integration provides the SCFRP fabric wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,636 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2024

In order to improve the accuracy and detection effect of fabric defect detection, a fabric defect detection method based on local similarity comparison is proposed in this paper. This method first takes each pixel in the image as the central pixel, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,009 Views
11 Pages

Wearable Fabric System for Sarcopenia Detection

  • Zhenhe Huang,
  • Qiuqian Ou,
  • Dan Li,
  • Yuanyi Feng,
  • Liangling Cai,
  • Yue Hu and
  • Hongwei Chu

18 December 2024

Sarcopenia has been a serious concern in the context of an increasingly aging global population. Existing detection methods for sarcopenia are severely constrained by cumbersome devices, the necessity for specialized personnel, and controlled experim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,010 Views
10 Pages

6 April 2020

As defect detection using machine vision is diversifying and expanding, approaches using deep learning are increasing. Recently, there have been much research for detecting and classifying defects using image segmentation, image detection, and image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
4,854 Views
12 Pages

The rapid sampling and efficient collection of target molecules from a real-world surface is fairly crucial for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to detect trace pesticide residues in the environment and in agriculture fields. In this work, a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,191 Views
19 Pages

Design and Fabrication of a 3D-Printed Microfluidic Immunoarray for Ultrasensitive Multiplexed Protein Detection

  • Keshani Hiniduma,
  • Ketki S. Bhalerao,
  • Peyahandi I. Thilini De Silva,
  • Tianqi Chen and
  • James F. Rusling

30 November 2023

Microfluidic technology has revolutionized device fabrication by merging principles of fluid dynamics with technologies from chemistry, physics, biology, material science, and microelectronics. Microfluidic systems manipulate small volumes of fluids...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,577 Views
17 Pages

Particle Fabrication Using Inkjet Printing onto Hydrophobic Surfaces for Optimization and Calibration of Trace Contraband Detection Sensors

  • Greg Gillen,
  • Marcela Najarro,
  • Scott Wight,
  • Marlon Walker,
  • Jennifer Verkouteren,
  • Eric Windsor,
  • Tim Barr,
  • Matthew Staymates and
  • Aaron Urbas

24 November 2015

A method has been developed to fabricate patterned arrays of micrometer-sized monodisperse solid particles of ammonium nitrate on hydrophobic silicon surfaces using inkjet printing. The method relies on dispensing one or more microdrops of a concentr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,709 Views
15 Pages

Object Detection: Custom Trained Models for Quality Monitoring of Fused Filament Fabrication Process

  • Georgios Bakas,
  • Kyriaki Bei,
  • Ioannis Skaltsas,
  • Eleni Gkartzou,
  • Vaia Tsiokou,
  • Alexandra Papatheodorou,
  • Anna Karatza and
  • Elias P. Koumoulos

21 October 2022

Process reliability and quality output are critical indicators for the upscaling potential of a fabrication process on an industrial level. Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is a versatile additive manufacturing (AM) technology that provides viable an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,781 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2020

The increase in the number of people suffering diabetes has been the driving force behind the development of glucose sensors to overcome the current testing shortcomings. In this work, a reusable, non-invasive and ultrafast radio frequency biosensor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,389 Views
20 Pages

25 October 2021

This research is aimed to detect defects on the surface of the fabric and deep learning model optimization. Since defect detection cannot effectively solve the fabric with complex background by image processing, this research uses deep learning to id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,604 Views
21 Pages

In the process of fabric production, various types of defects affect the quality of a fabric. However, due to the wide variety of fabric defects, the complexity of fabric textures, and the concealment of small target defects, current fabric defect de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,542 Views
12 Pages

Controlled Fabrication of Wafer-Scale, Flexible Ag-TiO2 Nanoparticle–Film Hybrid Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for Sub-Micrometer Plastics Detection

  • Fanyi Kong,
  • Chenhua Ji,
  • Gaolei Zhao,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zheng Hao,
  • Hu Wang,
  • Jianxun Dai,
  • Huolin Huang,
  • Lujun Pan and
  • Dawei Li

3 October 2024

As an important trace molecular detection technique, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been extensively investigated, while the realization of simple, low-cost, and controllable fabrication of wafer-scale, flexible SERS-active substrates r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,387 Views
16 Pages

5 July 2022

Fabric quality plays a crucial role in modern textile industry processes. How to detect fabric defects quickly and effectively has become the main research goal of researchers. The You Only Look Once (YOLO) series of networks have maintained a domina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,658 Views
20 Pages

20 December 2023

This paper proposes a fabric defect detection algorithm based on the SA-Pix2pix network and transfer learning to address the issue of insufficient accuracy in detecting complex pattern fabric defects in scenarios with limited sample data. Its primary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
941 Views
24 Pages

The detection of foreign material residues in fiber-reinforced composites (FRCs) is crucial, as such residues weaken the structural performance, especially when the acoustic impedance of the foreign material closely matches that of the composite mate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,644 Views
14 Pages

Automatic Unsupervised Fabric Defect Detection Based on Self-Feature Comparison

  • Zhengrui Peng,
  • Xinyi Gong,
  • Bengang Wei,
  • Xiangyi Xu and
  • Shixiong Meng

29 October 2021

Due to the huge demand for textile production in China, fabric defect detection is particularly attractive. At present, an increasing number of supervised deep-learning methods are being applied in surface defect detection. However, the annotation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,556 Views
14 Pages

30 March 2024

To address the issue of low accuracy in the yarn angle detection of glass fiber plain weave fabrics, which significantly impacts the quality and performance of the final products, a machine vision-based method for the yarn angle detection of glass fi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,244 Views
10 Pages

23 February 2022

The flexible and wearable capacitive sensors have captured tremendous interest due to their enormous potential for healthcare monitoring, soft robotics, and human−computer interface. However, despite recent progress, there are still pressing ch...

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