The garment manufacturing industry involves sequential processes that are subjected to uncontrollable variations. The industry depends on the skill of labour in handling the varieties of fabrics and accessories, machines, as well as complicated sewing operation. Due to these reasons, garment manufacturers have created systems to monitor and to control the quality of the products on a regular ba...

Many model pictures will be adopted in the network marketing of garment products because this method is the most intuitive. Human eyes can easily identify the garment styles, while computer programs struggle to automatically do so. This paper proposes a method for garment image segmentation in which the JSEG algorithm is applied to the image salient region segmentation, and the background regio...

Improving the reusability of design results is very important for garment design industry, since designing an elegant garment is usually labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we present a new approach for customizing 3D garment models. Our approach can transfer garment models initially dressed on a reference human model onto a target human model. To achieve this goal, firstly a spa...

OBJECTIVE: Throwing is a dynamic and complex task, which requires sequential movement to sufficiently transfer energy from the lower extremity to the upper extremity. Due to the repetitive stress of the overhead throwing motion, sport medicine personnel have developed different methods to assist in alleviating pain an athlete may be experiencing. One method is the use of a posture-cueing compre...

Due to the multiplicity of the implementation, virtual garment simulation requires the capacity of dressing a sewn garment onto various posed human models in a real time. In this paper, a three-step method has been proposed to accelerate the dress-up procedure. The virtual garment is first dressed onto a human model in a standing pose to record a distance map between the garment shell and the h...

Title of Document: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIVE CLOTHING: THE INFLUENCES OF MOISTURE AND A THERMALLY ACTIVATED EXPANDING AIR-GAP. James Patrick White, Master of Science, 2012 Directed By: Professor, Marino di Marzo, Department of Fire Protection Engineering Thermally protective clothing garments are necessary pieces of equipment that ensure the life safety of firefighters....

We conducted a qualitative study to explore responses to a low-technology first-aid device for management of life-threatening obstetric hemorrhage in rural health facilities in Mexico. This entailed in-depth, semistructured interviews with clinical and administrative staff (n = 70) involved in pilot studies of the nonpneumatic antishock garment (NASG) at primary health care facilities and rural...

denim is a casual garment normally used by young people and extremely influential in shaping the fashion industry. among various garments, these garments are subjected to innovations. this work is an attempt to compare the different methods of stone washing using pumice stones, acid cellulases and neutral cellulases or in combination of these methods. the effects of different processing conditi...

n most computer-generated films involving I virtual humans, clothes are simulated as part of the body and have no autonomous motion. In recent years, however, software has been developed to design 2D garment panels interactively and to optimize the layout of the panels on fabric. For example, Hinds and McCartney’ treated garment panels as surfaces of complex 3D shapes. They represented a static...

Current standard test methods for the evaluation of the performance of modern ESDprotective clothing used in electronics industry do not measure correctly the effectiveness of the clothing to protect sensitive electronics from electrostatic phenomena. Therefore a new European research project – ESTAT-Garments – was started in early 2002. The main objective of this three-years project (2002-2005...