Objective evaluation of wrinkled fabric using radon transform

Abstract Wrinkling is one of the most important visible properties of a fabric for the consumer that is routinely evaluated in reference to a set of visual standards in the textile industry. The visual evaluation is unreliable and time-inefficient. This paper introduces a new quantitative analysis method for fabric wrinkle and addresses the development of an image analysis technique using the radon transform (RT) and texture analysis to evaluate it. Objective results from the RT and texture analysis are compared with subjective ones from human experts. The study reveals a linear relationship between the RT as objective evaluation and subjective evaluation having a correlation coefficient of 0.97. The correlation between texture analysis and subjective evaluation is acceptable.