Estimation of pigment magnitudes in synthetic leather by using scanner and artificial neural network

In the present work the magnitudes of pigments in the synthetic leather، were measured by means of scanner. Initially synthetic leather samples pigmented by three different pigments of yellow، blue and red colors were prepared. Then the pigmented samples were scanned، and the values of RGB of images were calculated. The artificial neural network (ANN) method used to make relation between RGB values and pigment magnitudes. The method was successfully applied for the estimation of pigment magnitudes in the synthetic leather samples.