AI in Fashion and Textile Industry
Cheng Yik Hung Endowed Professor in Fashion, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
COM2 Level 4
Executive Classroom, COM2-04-02
Abstract:
Over the last two decades, with the great advancement of computer technology, academic research in artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in fashion and textile industry has been becoming a very hot topic and has received greater attention from both academics and industrialists. The Textile and Apparel Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) Research Team which has been established since 2010 to conduct fundamental and applied research on AI, computer vision and machine learning, specifically for the fashion and textile industry. This talk will discuss the current and potential application of AI to fashion and textile sectors and introduce the current projects being conducted by the TAAI Research Team.
Biodata:
Dr Wong's main research interests include fashion and artificial intelligence integration, computer vision, image feature extraction, and pattern recognition for fashion and textiles. He is leading the Textile and Apparel Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) Research Team which has been conducting fundamental and applied research on artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision and machine learning, specifically for the fashion and textile industry since 2010.
Dr Wong has successfully collaborated with various local and international fashion brands and apparel companies in a number of research projects. His academic research deliverables have also been patented and successfully licensed to the fashion and textile industry for commercial use. Recently, Professor Wong has collaborated with Alibaba Group to establish the first-of-its-kind "FashionAI Dataset" for enabling machine to better understand fashion, bringing a new horizon to the fashion retail industry through the application of AI. Professor Wong has also successfully developed an intelligent fabric defect detection system, called "WiseEye", which leverages advanced technologies including AI and Deep Learning in the process of quality control in textile industry.
Professor Wong has published over 100 research articles in Science Citation Index journals including the world leading journals in artificial intelligence field, such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, etc. Essential Science Indicators has ranked his two recent research publications in TNNLS among the top 1% of the most cited articles. Professor Wong has authored and edited three books on the integration of artificial intelligence techniques with the fashion and textile industry, including the first-two-ever on the topics of "Optimising Decision Making in the Apparel Supply Chain Using AI: From Production to Retailing" and "Applications of Computer Vision in Fashion and Textiles". Currently he is also Associate Editor of Neurocomputing.
Over the past ten years, Professor Wong received eight research related awards, including best research paper awards in international research conferences, and international and regional innovation awards. On the basis of his research track record, he has always been invited as plenary, keynote and invited speaker, technical programme committee member, and track chair of several international academic conferences. As a key pioneer in the integration of artificial intelligence with fashion and textile, Professor Wong served as the Conference Chair of the world's first conference on the integration of fashion and artificial intelligence, "Artificial Intelligence on Fashion and Textile Conference 2018" (AIFT), co-organised with Alibaba Group and The Textile Institute, UK on July 3 - 6 2018.