OverFeat Network Algorithm for Fabric Defect Detection in Textile Industry

Automation of systems emerged since the beginning of 20th century. In the early days, the automation systems were developed with a fixed algorithm to perform some specific task in a repeated manner. Such fixed automation systems are revolutionized in recent days with an artificial intelligence program to take decisions on their own. The motive of the proposed work is to train a textile industry system to automatically detect the defects presence in the generated fabrics. The work utilizes an OverFeat network algorithm for such training process and compares its performances with its earlier version called AlexNet and VGG. The experimental work is conducted with a fabric defect dataset consisting of three class images categorised as horizontal, vertical and hole defects.

A dual-branch balance saliency model based on discriminative feature for fabric defect detection

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to focus on the design of a dual-branch balance saliency model based on fully convolutional network (FCN) for automatic fabric defect detection, and improve quality control in textile manufacturing.Design/methodology/approachThis paper proposed a dual-branch balance saliency model based on discriminative feature for fabric defect detection. A saliency branch is firstly designed to address the problems of scale variation and contextual information integration, which is realized through the cooperation of a multi-scale discriminative feature extraction module (MDFEM) and a bidirectional stage-wise integration module (BSIM). These modules are respectively adopted to extract multi-scale discriminative context information and enrich the contextual information of features at each stage. In addition, another branch is proposed to balance the network, in which a bootstrap refinement module (BRM) is trained to guide the restoration of feature details.FindingsTo evaluate the performance of the proposed network, we conduct extensive experiments, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches on seven evaluation metrics. We also conduct adequate ablation analyses that provide a full understanding of the design principles of the proposed method.Originality/valueThe dual-branch balance saliency model was proposed and applied into the fabric defect detection. The qualitative and quantitative experimental results show the effectiveness of the detection method. Therefore, the proposed method can be used for accurate fabric defect detection and even surface defect detection of other industrial products.