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Fabric Fault Detection

The document discusses using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect fabric faults and inspect finished garments. It describes how AI can more accurately and quickly detect fabric defects compared to human inspectors. It then explains how AI and machine vision can be applied to inspect finished garments for issues like stitching quality, mismatched patterns, puckering, and more. The automated inspection using AI aims to improve efficiency and objectivity compared to human inspectors.

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Fabric Fault Detection

The document discusses using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect fabric faults and inspect finished garments. It describes how AI can more accurately and quickly detect fabric defects compared to human inspectors. It then explains how AI and machine vision can be applied to inspect finished garments for issues like stitching quality, mismatched patterns, puckering, and more. The automated inspection using AI aims to improve efficiency and objectivity compared to human inspectors.

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Fabric fault detection:

Any defect in the fabric is passed into the final garment, which can result in the rejection of the
garment hence reduces the productivity during garment manufacturing. So, it is essential to
check the quality of the fabric before manufacturing the garment.

Generally, fabric inspection is performed by skilled workers using lighted tables or equipment.


This process is rather slow and many times can allow faults to pass to the garment.
Furthermore, the efficiency of the fabric inspectors will be reduced quickly with fatigue.
However, the use of AI can perform this task at a faster rate, with much higher accuracy and
without fatigue.

AI can be applied for fault inspection and grading of the fabrics that are received in a garment
industry. WiseEye is an intelligent fabric fault detection system developed by the Textile
and Apparel Artificial Intelligence Research Team. Integrating advanced technologies
including AI and deep learning, this system comprises various components that perform
different functions:

A high-powered LED light bar illuminates the fabric and a high-resolution charge-
coupled device camera is mounted on a rail to capture images of the whole width of the
fabric during the weaving process. The images are then fed into an AI-based machine
vision algorithm to detect fabric defects. The computer system receives real-time
information, whereas analytical statistics and alert can be generated as necessary.

Final garment inspection:


The inspection of finished and semi finished garments during their production is essential to get
fewer rejections. The final quality inspection of finished garments is mainly done by
experienced people, which is very time-consuming and often subjective in nature. The results of
the inspection are influenced by the physical and mental condition of the inspector. Therefore,
automated inspection devices are essential to achieve increased efficiency and accurate results.
Automated inspection can be performed by the use of AI and image processing for inspection of
the quality of finished garments.

The finished garments are inspected for stitching quality, mismatched plaids or stripes along
the seam, puckered seam or extra material caught in seams, uneven seam along hems, and
many other faults that can arise during the garment production.

The application of AI in final garment inspection includes:

 Automatic classification of general faults in shirt collars (for mono colored materials) using
machine vision.
 Application of AATCC (American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists) wrinkle rating
for evaluation of wrinkle by using a laser sensor.
 Detection and classification of stitching defects using wavelet transform and BP NN; seam
pucker evaluation by using self-organizing mapping.
 Designing of a smart hanger for garment inspection.
 In manufacturing the seamless garments, AI can be used to detect faults online.

The image of the final garment can be captured and compared with the standard and any
variation from the standard is reported as a fault that can be mended at that time or a marking is
done where the fault occurs.

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