Repeat Pattern Segmentation of Printed Fabrics by Hough Transform Method

Abstract

A novel approach of repeat pattern segmentation is proposed for printed fabrics. Printed fabrics are captured by a color scanner and converted into full color digital files. To classify the color segmentation and pattern elements a fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm and a specific cluster-validity criterion are used to obtain the pattern image of printed fabric. Then, the repeat pattern segmentation of the pattern image is established by Hough transform. The experimental results have shown that this systematic method is very suitable for the analysis of the repeat pattern of printed fabrics.

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