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Image Processing Techniques for Evaluation of Textile Materials

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In some situations, the techniques described in the last two chapters may be insufficient to interpret an image correctly – or to gain as much information as possible from a picture taken by a microscope or in another way. Image processing can help to extract additional information from pictures. While these methods often require comprehensive knowledge and expensive databases, there are also possibilities to use common software – partly even without any mathematical knowledge – to find out more about a picture showing a textile material.

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Ehrmann, A., Blachowicz, T. (2017). Image Processing Techniques for Evaluation of Textile Materials. In: Examination of Textiles with Mathematical and Physical Methods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47408-3_7

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