Pilling is an undesired defect of textile fabrics, consisting of a surface characterized by a number of roughly spherical masses made of entangled fibers. Mainly caused by the abrasion of fabric surface occurring during washing and wearing of fabrics, this defect needs to be accurately controlled and measured by companies working in the textile industry. Pilling measurement is traditionally performed using manual procedures involving visual control of fabric surface by human experts. Since the early nineties, great efforts in developing automatic and non-intrusive methods for pilling measurement have been made all around the world with the final aim of overcoming traditional, visual-based and subjective, procedures. Machine Vision proved to be among the best options to perform such defect assessment since it provided increasingly performing measurement equipment and tools, serving the purpose of automatic control. In particular, a relevant number of interesting works have been proposed so far, sharing the idea of helping (or even replacing) traditional measurement methods using image processing-based ones. The present work provides a rational and chronological review of the most relevant methods for pilling measurement proposed so far. This work serves the purposes of 1) understanding whether today automatic machine vision-based pilling measurement techniques are ready for supplanting traditional pilling measurement and 2) providing the textile technology researchers with a bird’s eye view about the main methods studied to confront with this problem.

Machine Vision-based pilling assessment: a review / Y. Volpe; R. Furferi; L. Governi. - In: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERED FIBERS AND FABRICS. - ISSN 1558-9250. - STAMPA. - 10(3):(2015), pp. 79-93.

Machine Vision-based pilling assessment: a review

VOLPE, YARY;FURFERI, ROCCO;GOVERNI, LAPO
2015

Abstract

Pilling is an undesired defect of textile fabrics, consisting of a surface characterized by a number of roughly spherical masses made of entangled fibers. Mainly caused by the abrasion of fabric surface occurring during washing and wearing of fabrics, this defect needs to be accurately controlled and measured by companies working in the textile industry. Pilling measurement is traditionally performed using manual procedures involving visual control of fabric surface by human experts. Since the early nineties, great efforts in developing automatic and non-intrusive methods for pilling measurement have been made all around the world with the final aim of overcoming traditional, visual-based and subjective, procedures. Machine Vision proved to be among the best options to perform such defect assessment since it provided increasingly performing measurement equipment and tools, serving the purpose of automatic control. In particular, a relevant number of interesting works have been proposed so far, sharing the idea of helping (or even replacing) traditional measurement methods using image processing-based ones. The present work provides a rational and chronological review of the most relevant methods for pilling measurement proposed so far. This work serves the purposes of 1) understanding whether today automatic machine vision-based pilling measurement techniques are ready for supplanting traditional pilling measurement and 2) providing the textile technology researchers with a bird’s eye view about the main methods studied to confront with this problem.
2015
10(3)
79
93
Y. Volpe; R. Furferi; L. Governi
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