Abstract:

Seam smoothness for worsted wool fabric will affect the quality of garments. In order to investigate the objective evaluation method of seaming smoothness for worsted wool fabric, 6 wool woven fabrics with solid color were selected and gathered to produce 24 samples with different seam smoothness. The seamed samples were then subjective evaluation according to their smoothness with different methods. The images of the seamed samples were Gabor analyzed, and then the entropy values of different directions and different frequencies were extracted. After that, the filter was chosen by the principle of max entropy. At last, the total entropy value acquired by 6 best filters was obtained as the objective evaluation index with the information fusion technology. Results show that good quadratic polynomial relationship exists between the total entropy and experts pair comparing score, and the total entropy value can be used to estimate the score of pair comparison as well as the seam smoothness grade level of experts subjective evaluation. Gabor transform can be used to evaluate the seam smoothness of wool apparel， which has the advantage of objectiveness and accuracy.

Key words: seaming smoothness, Gabor transform, worsted wool garment, objective evaluation