Garment counting in a textile warehouse by means of a laser imaging system

Textile logistic warehouses are highly automated mechanized places where control points are needed to count and validate the number of garments in each batch. This paper proposes and describes a low cost and small size automated system designed to count the number of garments by processing an image...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2013-04, Vol.13 (5), p.5630-5648
Main Authors: Martínez-Sala, Alejandro Santos, Sánchez-Aartnoutse, Juan Carlos, Egea-López, Esteban
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
garment counter
image processing
laser imaging
phototransistor
Sensors
textile warehouse
Warehouses
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Summary:Textile logistic warehouses are highly automated mechanized places where control points are needed to count and validate the number of garments in each batch. This paper proposes and describes a low cost and small size automated system designed to count the number of garments by processing an image of the corresponding hanger hooks generated using an array of phototransistors sensors and a linear laser beam. The generated image is processed using computer vision techniques to infer the number of garment units. The system has been tested on two logistic warehouses with a mean error in the estimated number of hangers of 0.13%.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s130505630