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We can only use color numbers, color values and design to describe the color pattern of printed fabrics, which is different from woven fabrics with yarn disposition and texture as pattern determinants. Since most printed fabrics contain many different patterns nowadays, we need more than words and simple methods to describe the color patterns. The complication in pattern identification has made the analysis and comparison difficult and will have to be conducted manually. The automatic computer color separating system for printed fabrics proposed in this paper uses unsupervised learning network to automatically separate printed colors. The system first uses color scanner to pick the image of the printed fabrics and stores it as digital image. Then, it uses wavelet transformation to minify the fabric image to reduce the calculation load of color separation and also reserve the printing structure and color distribution of the original image. It also uses LAB color model to acquire characteristic value of the colors and the Self-Organizing Map Network (SOMN) to conduct color separation. According to our experimental results, this system can rapidly and automatically complete color separation and identify repeating patterns for printed fabrics’ images.
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Kuo, CF.J., Kao, CY. Automatic color separating system for printed fabric using the self-organizing map network approach. Fibers Polym 9, 708–714 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-008-0111-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-008-0111-4