The physiological properties of clothing designed to provide protection against cold, windy and damp conditions affect comfort. The weight, thickness, stiffness of the fabrics and friction between the clothing layers affect physical performance. The comfort and perception of performance associated with 3 military winter combat clothing systems from different decades (the new M05 system, the pre...

3) Key Laboratory of Clothing Design & Technology, Ministry of Education, China Abstract Considering a clothing system consists of the human body, an air gap layer under the clothing as well as a fabric layer and boundary layer adjacent to the fabric, heat transfer from the skin to the environment is influenced by human body thermoregulation, the air gap, the fabric and environmental conditions...

Clothing segmentation is a challenging issue of research, which is gaining more and more attention. This paper presents an interactive clothing segmentation method based on JSEG and GrabCut. Firstly, we pre-process the image from pixels to regions using JSEG algorithm for the purposes of lessening computer loads and reducing the noise of image, and then build a graph using regions as nodes, and...

Soft biometrics continues to attract research interest. Traditional body and face soft biometrics have been the main research focus and have been proven, by many researchers, to be usable for identification and retrieval. Also, soft biometrics have been shown to provide several advantages over classic biometrics, such as invariance to illumination and contrast. Other than body and face, little ...

Evaporative resistance has been widely used to describe the evaporative heat transfer property of clothing. It is also a critical variable in heat stress models for predicting human physiological responses in various environmental conditions. At present, sweating thermal manikins provide a fast and cost-effective way to determine clothing evaporative resistance. Unfortunately, the measurement r...

It is well known that clothing fashion is a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style in which a person dresses. Clothing fashions are usually expressed with visual stimuli such as style, color, and texture. However, it is not clear which visual stimulus places higher/lower influence on the updating of clothing fashion. In this study, computer vision and machine learning techniques are ...

Hot liquid hazards existing in work environments present a common risk in workplace safety in numerous industries. In this study, a newly developed instrumented manikin system was used to assess the protective performance provided by protective clothing against hot liquid splash. The skin burn injury and its distribution for the selected clothing system were predicted and the effects of clothin...

Designing clothing with good thermal functional performance is very demanding and time-consuming if we follow traditional design methods. An innovative method consisting of a CAD system, allowing the designer to perform multi-style clothing thermal functional design on a customized virtual human body, is presented in this paper. The new functionalities of the virtual system provide the abilitie...

Individuals often receive judgements from others based on their clothing and their posture. While both of these factors have been found to influence judgements of competency independently, their relative importance in impression formation is yet to be investigated. We address this by examining interactive effects of posture and clothing on four competency measures: confidence, professionalism, ...

The clothing of Mexican indigenous origin is characterized primarily by the materials of which it is made, the type of fabric, the icons woven or embroidered therein and the colours applied in its composition. Defining their origin and visual identification based on the icons requires ethnographic, technical and historical knowledge. This work presents the analysis of images (icons) identified ...