butterfly

I noticed that when I do laundry I would, at some point, sort of “display” the article of clothing before folding the laundry like this:

That’s when I realized, I could probably take a picture right when I did this by either detecting this pose and then automatically taking a picture, or more chaotically (this is what I did), by setting a small device to take a photo every 15 seconds or so until my laundry was all folded.

First, I would take a picture of each article of clothing in my closet (this was the most laborous part, but it gets very convenient afterwards).

Then, I could use a CNN/Siamese network to match (or at least match the general class of the article of clothing) the currently-being-folded piece of clothing to an existing article of clothing and mark this piece of clothing as clean.

Finally, on a daily basis, when I would choose my outfit I could just take a single photo, mark all the clothing I am wearing as “dirty” and have an actively tracked wardrobe application. With this, I could always know what outfit I could wear, approximately how long until no outfits that I usually wore availble (time to do the laundry).

Here is the device that I used (a cheap chasis, Nvidia Jetson Nano 2GB, and high quality camera):