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Intelligent animal fiber classification with artificial neural networks
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posted on 2002-01-01, 00:00 authored by Fenghua SheFenghua She, Lingxue KongLingxue Kong, Saeid Nahavandi, Abbas KouzaniAbbas KouzaniArtificial neural networks (ANN) are increasingly used to solve many problems related to pattern recognition and object classification. In this paper, we report on a study using artificial neural networks to classify two kinds of animal fibers: merino and mohair. We have developed two different models, one extracting nine scale parameters with image processing, and the other using an unsupervised artificial neural network to extract features automatically, which are determined in accordance with the complexity of the scale structure and the accuracy of the model. Although the first model can achieve higher accuracy, it requires more effort for image processing and more prior knowledge, since the accuracy of the ANN largely depends on the parameters selected. The second model is more robust than the first, since only raw images are used. Because only ordinary optical images taken with a microscope are employed, we can use the approach for many textile applications without expensive equipment such as scanning electron microscopy.
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Textile research journalVolume
72Issue
7Pagination
594 - 600Publisher
SageLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0040-5175eISSN
1746-7748Language
engPublication classification
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