Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITU) of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) collaborates with Alibaba Group vision and beauty team that specializes in vision intelligence and applications, to establish the “Fashion artificial intelligence Dataset” for systematic analysis and labeling of fashion images based on “fashion attributes” and “key points” of an apparel. The Dataset will enable machine to understand fashion better, presenting a new horizon to the fashion retail industry through the application of Artificial intelligence.
Working together the academics and industry will explore applications of artificial intelligence in scenarios which include assisting design, fashion mix and match and shopping guide, bringing new values to fashion industry.
Challenges of fashion image
Fashion image searches are limited to exact searches. Particular fashion attributes might not be able to meet needs of the customer since technology is unable to train machines to accurately understand and recognize fashion attributes of each fashion image.
The key points of fashion images are neckline, cuff and waistline whereas, fashion attributes are sleeve length, collar type and skirt style.Alibaba and PolyU will host two events: AIFT Conference and Fashion Artificial Intelligent Global Challenge
AIFT Conference is an academic conference which will bring together researchers, practitioners and engineers to share their insights on the development and applications of Artificial intelligence and fashion. AIFT Conference will be held in July 2018 at PolyU. For more information, visit https://www.polyu.edu.hk/itc/aift2018/index.html
FashionAI Challenge invites worldwide Artificial Intelligence researchers and developers to solve two imminent issues on the application of Artificial Intelligence in fashion with over 400,000 images with high-quality annotations from Alibaba ecommerce platforms. The competition offers a prize pool of RMB 1.34 million. The Fashion Artificial Intelligence Global Challenge 2018 is open to the public, and the competition will be held in February 2018. . For more information, please visit http://fashionai.alibaba.com/
