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Is proposed a method for the automatic detection of dark fibres in wool tops based on image processing. A software which implements this method was developed, composed by five modules: KL projection, light correction, Gabor filtering, segmentation and morphology. The digital image are taken by a camera placed in a balanced illumination system. The method was calibrated and tested on 170 images marked by experts from Secretariado Uruguayo de la Lana.
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Bazerque, J., Ciambelli, J., Lafon, S., Randall, G. (2003). Automatic Dark Fibres Detection in Wool Tops. In: Sanfeliu, A., Ruiz-Shulcloper, J. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis. CIARP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24586-5_45
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