Clothing Model Fitting for Laundry Folding Assistance

Abstract

Laundry folding has the role that makes laundry compact and easy to store. It is, however, less preferred than other housework. This paper, therefore, describes to present folding procedure by using clothing model fitting for laundry folding assistance. A clothing model is constituted by mesh, where each node has its state transition, in order to handle cloth folding procedures with the same model. The clothing model fits on a contour of a target clothes generated by background subtraction. After that, each node is relocated to the optimal position to minimize a sum of some energy functions. IoU(Intersection over Union) is greater than 0.97 for all test images and the average difference of the folds becomes 2.3 pixels.