“…Various techniques have been employed to implement automatic inspection and removal of foreign contaminant in lint; these include ultrasonic-based inspection, sensor-based inspection, machine-vision-based inspection, etc. in recent years, machine-vision systems have been applied in the textile industries (tantaswadi et al, 1999;Millman et al, 2001;Abouelela et al, 2005) for inspection and/or removal of foreign matter in cotton (Lieberman et al, 1998), wool (Su et al, 2006) or composites (Chiu et al, 1999;Chiu and Liaw, 2005).…”