International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology: Volume 26 Issue 1

Automatic human body segmentation based on feature extraction

JoonWoo Jo, MoonWon Suh, TaeHwan Oh, HeeSam Kim, HanJo Bae, SoonMo Choi, SungSoo Han

Automatic segmentation of unorganized 3D human body scan data was developed without heuristic specified values. It was reliable in finding the upper body's primary landmarks. The…

Investigation into the feasibility of inductively coupled antenna for use in smart clothing

Minyoung Suh, Katherine E. Carroll, Edward Grant, William Oxenham

This research investigated the feasibility of using an inductively coupled antenna as the basis of applying a systems approach to smart clothing. In order to simulate real-life…

Investigation and assessment of photoluminescent embroidered elements

S. Radavičiene, M. Jucienė, V. Sacevičiene, R. Sacevičius, K. Otas

The purpose of this paper is to determine conformity of geometrical parameters between the elements embroidered with photoluminescent threads and their digital images as well as…

Designing of engineered fabrics using particle swarm optimization

S. Das, A. Ghosh, D. Banerjee

The purpose of this paper is to design woven fabrics with desired quality and low manufacturing cost by optimizing the weave parameters such as count, crimp and thread spacing of…

Categorization of fabric design using multi-class least-square support vector machine

A. Ghosh, T. Guha, R. Bhar

The purpose of this paper is to give an approach for categorization of diverse textile designs using their textural features as extracted from their gray images by means of…

Stick-slip properties of single and multiple yarn pull-out in dry and softening treated polyester satin woven fabrics in boundary region

Kadir Bilisik, Bekir Yildirim

– The aim of this study was to understand the stick-slip properties of single and multiple yarn pull-out in dry and treated polyester satin woven fabric in boundary regions.

Effects of plasma pre-treatment on surface properties of fabric sputtered with copper

Lingling Meng, Qufu Wei, Yueli Li, Wenzheng Xu

In this study, the polyester fabrics were treated with low temperature plasma before Cu sputtering. The effect of oxygen gas plasma pre-treatment on the surface structures…

Discussing research impact

George Stylios