AI-based Interactive Design Assistant for Fashion(AiDA)

AiDLab
Overview

Developed by Prof. Calvin Wong and his team, this is the world’s first and only designer-led AI system that streamlines the fashion design process from hours to seconds, while at the same time facilitating designer's inspiration.

  • AI-based Interactive Design Assistant for Fashion(AiDA) 0
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Commercialisation opportunities
non-exclusive licensing;
Problem addressed

AI technologies in design mostly use a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that doesn't take designer's new creative inspiration and trend into account. While AiDA generates original fashion collections with personal style via inputs based on a designer's individual inspiration.

Innovation
  • With just a few simple clicks, the system can produce original design collections based on the mood board images designer uploaded, generating unlimited design proposals to meet the need of fashion brands to launch a large number of new products every season.
  • Generates unlimited design proposals and sparks creativity. With just a few clicks, designers can choose or refine options to develop fashion collections
  • AiDA comprises a fine-grained colour extraction technique which accurately distinguishes more than 2,300 colours to achieve fast and reliable image recognition, detection, and generation.
Key impact
  • Existing fashion design related systems and software serve mainly as visualisation tools or random design generation platforms. AiDA is the world’s first and only designer-led AI system that allows designers to be actively involved in an ideation process which replicates the real-life fashion design process.
  • AiDA can streamline the fashion design process by saving 60-70% of the time, Generates unlimited design proposals and spark designer's inspiration, while at the same time, preserve brand DNA and facilitat signature design elements of particular fashion brands can be realised in the new designs;
  • With the provision of advanced AI technologies, AiDA allows fashion novices who do not have drawing or sketching skills to create their own designs in a simple and easy mode.
  • AiDA revolutionises fashion design processes by streamlining the conventional and intensive studio processes with agility, efficiency and flexibility, speeding up time to market, facilitating sustainability by reducing the need for excessive, repetitive sampling and labour.
Application
  • The world’s first and only designer-led AI cloud-based system for fashion brands or individual designers to access anytime and anywhere by subscription. It streamlines the design process by saving 60-70% of the time, and facilitates designer inspiration.
  • Generates unlimited design proposals and sparks creativity. With just a few clicks, designers can choose or refine options to develop fashion collections
  • Allows fashion novices who do not have drawing or sketching skills to create their own designs in a simple and easy mode
  • Preserves brand DNA and facilitates signature design elements of particular fashion brands can be realised in the new designs;

Patent

  • Design Image Generation Method, Device, Electronic Device and Storage Medium (Patent App. No.: CN 202210392093.1)

AiDLab is the first research platform that focuses on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with design. It was jointly established by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the UK, and is funded by the HKSAR Government under the InnoHK Research Clusters. Located at the Hong Kong Science Park, AiDLab has established a new creative cluster of AI in design and is in a leading position internationally to conduct interdisciplinary research in three thematic programmes: Ergonomic and Inclusive Design, Innovation in Product and Service Design, and Intelligent Fashion Design and Quality Control, that drives innovation and sustainability, and makes a positive impact on both industry and society.

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