Raspberry Pi Based Clothing Recognition in Textile Industry

Textile manufacturing is a major industry which is based on the conversion of fibre into fabric. It is a hectic task for people to monitor the manufacturing process continuously. Automatic clothing pattern and colour recognition to avoid the undesired damages are necessary in this growing technical world. We have developed a camera-based prototype system that recognizes clothing colours and patterns. The system integrates a camera, GSM, Wi-Fi modem, and a buzzer along with Raspberry pi for audio description of clothing patterns and colours. A camera is used to check the colour in the initial processing of dyeing. If it does not match with the reference colour the system buzzers and motor driver stops the motor of the machine and also sends a message and thereby alerts the supervisor. The images captured by the camera get processed with the help of Raspberry pi and the system gets alerted appropriately. The same phenomenon occurs with the pattern of clothing when the printing patterns get altered from that of the reference pattern. Inbuilt ARM processor of raspberry pi performs the processing to get the desired output.