With the increasing number of documents that are available in digital form, also the number of digital historical documents is increasing (Berkvens, 2001). It cannot be assumed that standard IR systems perform well on historical documents: historical texts differ from modern texts in three ways (Hüning, 1996; Van Der Horst and Marschall, 1989): (a) vocabularies have changed, (b) spelling has ch...

The goal of our research works is to build a software for fabric modeling. Our research team wants to simulate any fabric deformations due to mechanic stresses. This paper deals with our solutions to speed up calculus convergence of fabric model simulation. These solutions are based on clever propagation algorithm, multi sampling and displacement prediction. Into bibliography, there is several ...

Conventional loose-weave cotton operating garments were compared with clothing of a non-woven fabric to test their efficacy in reducing the dispersal of skin bacteria into theatre air. When men wore operating suits made of the non-woven fabric dispersal of skin bacteria was reduced by 72%. When all the operating-theatre staff wore suits and dresses of this fabric air bacterial counts during ope...

Performance of applications with computationally intensive kernels can be improved by a general-purpose processor used together with application-specific hardware accelerators. To accelerate a wide range of applications with different kernels, a runtime reconfigurable fabric (such as an embedded FPGA) is used. Each application can deploy its own accelerators onto the fabric in order to improve ...

The presence of defects in cold mercerizing of cotton goods led to the creation of a new method, called hot mercerizing in which caustic soda solution is used at a high temperature. Hot mercerizing is successfully used in cotton blended with some other fibers. In cotton/polyester blend fabrics, this treatment serves a dual purpose: subjectively, it imparts a silklike soft handle to the po...

We present a new procedural method for photorealistic rendering of woven fabric material. The goal of our research is to provide a new procedural method that renders photorealistic woven fabric without any measured data. The proposed method models the reflectance properties of woven fabric with alternating anisotropy and yarn-level surface normal manipulation. The experimental results show the ...

Softness is one of the most important properties for an apparel fabric. This paper investigated the feasibility of objective evaluation of fabric softness by measuring the forces of pulling a fabric specimen through a series of parallel pins. The specific pulling forces of fabric specimens were compared with those indexes obtained both from FAST (Fabric Assurance By Simple Testing) tests and su...