Automating inspection

摘要

Textile & apparel manufacturers are eager to automate thefabric inspection process, notes professor Calvin Wong,professor in fashion at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’sInstitute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) and CEO of theLaboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (AiDLab).Wong highlights that the textile & apparel value chainis complex and requires multiple inspection checkpoints.Many of these quality control checks are performedmanually, which requires the hiring and training of highlyskilled quality inspectors. Skills needed include the preciseidentification of defects in textiles and how to grade orclassify such defects. But Wong suggests even this is notnearly thorough or reliable enough.