Abstract
This Special Issue of the AATCC Journal of Research (AJOR) is related to the 3rd Artificial Intelligence on Fashion and Textile International Conference 2022 (AIFT 2022), which was co-organized by Donghua University, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (AiDLab), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and The 20th International Exhibition on Textile Industry (ShanghaiTex 2021), held on 18–19 and 25–26 May 2022.
Over the last two decades, with the great advancement of computer technology, academic research on artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in fashion and textile supply chain has been becoming a very hot topic and has received greater attention from both academics and industrialists. Today, we have witnessed the promising use of AI and machine learning techniques being employed successfully to handle a broad range of areas including textile and apparel big data, fashion e-commerce, customization, supply chain optimization, planning and scheduling, textile material defect detection, fashion and textile image recognition, fashion image and style retrieval, human body modeling and fitting, and many more.
Following the huge success of the AIFT Conference 2018 in Hong Kong and the AIFT Conference 2019 in Shanghai, the AIFT Conference 2022 once again brought together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to discuss and explore visionary theories and applied intelligence topics in fashion and textiles use, forging a strong partnership toward a shared vision.
Four key topics of AIFT 2022 included (1) AI with Textiles, (2) AI with Fashion, (3) Wearable Devices and Human Modeling, and (4) AI Fundamentals. Forty-six good quality papers were selected and presented online at the AIFT 2022 and further considered to be reviewed for the publication of this Special Issue. The papers were evaluated with a double-blind reviewing process as required by the Journal’s policy.
In the topic “AI with Textiles,” a number of papers studied temperate regulation in E-textiles, heat transfer, fabric density measurement, and cotton export forecasting. In the topic “AI with Fashion,” papers included fashion illustration, image transfer, pattern design and generation, and fashion compatibility. In the topic “Wearable Device and Human Modeling,” papers covered the areas of heat transfer, three-dimensional (3D) thermoregulation, respiratory monitoring of smart vest, and foot anthropometry. In the topic “AI Fundamentals,” areas on object detection, attention-based long short-term memory (ATT-LSTM)-based classification, and deep feature fusion network were discussed.