Guests who attended the press conference include: Prof. Calvin Wong, Cheng Yik Hung Professor in Fashion at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Professor Wang Zhijie, Associate Dean & Ph.D supervisor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology of Donghua University, Professor Dong Aihua, Associate Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology of Donghua University, Mr. Liu Weiping, General Manager of Shanghai Textile Technology Service & Exhibition Co., Ltd., Mr. Bian Guorong, Vice President of Shanghai International Exhibition Co., Ltd., Mr. Parry Chung, General Manager of the Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd. etc.

The organizers of ShanghaiTex 2019 (Shanghai Textile Technology Service & Exhibition Co., Ltd., Shanghai International Exhibition Co., ltd., Adsale Exhibition Service Ltd.) and the Institute of Textiles & Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University signed Cooperation Agreement.

Prof. Calvin Wong, Cheng Yik Hung Professor in Fashion at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University announced that AIFT will develop a long-term cooperation with ShanghaiTex 2019, with a forecast that an Artificial Intelligence Alliance will be established together with a number of institutions during the opening of AIFT 2019. Prof. Wong also mentioned that computer technology, especially AI’s rapid development over the past twenty years has changed our lifestyle and society. The textile and fashion industry will step into The Fourth Industrial Revolution soon as the mature technology application in production process will become more usual, the technology will be further optimized according to the market needs. In view of this, AIFT 2019 adopts “research, application, popularization” as the core values, aiming to connect the researchers and industry practitioners together to explore new AI applications in the textile and fashion industry.

Professor Wang Zhijie, Associate Dean & Ph.D supervisor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology of Donghua University, as one of the co-organizers, stated that the characteristics of the college have always been inseparable from “intelligence” and “textile and apparel industries”, indicating that their belief and the theme of AIFT 2019 is very similar, thus they are pleased to be a part of AIFT to accelerate the development and application of AI on Textile and Fashion Industry.

Conference Hotpots: Tapping the Potential of AI applications in Textile and Fashion Industry

Following the success of AIFT 2018 as the first edition, AIFT 2019 will be held simultaneously with ShanghaiTex 2019’s TexTech Galaxy in Shanghai Pudong during 25-27 November 2019, which will once again provide an open platform for researchers, engineers and practitioners in the area of AI, fashion and textile to explore the ways driving towards “Industry 4.0” and “The New Era of Retail”. The speakers of AIFT 2019 include Prof. Calvin Wong, Cheng Yik Hung Professor in Fashion at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Prof. Anne Toomey, Head of Textile Programme Royal in College of Art, London and Prof. Chua Tet Seng, KITHCT Chair Professor School of Computing in National University of Singapore. Key topics of the speeches cover internet of things, textile and apparel supply chain modeling, textile material defect detection, textile material color measurement, wearable devices, 3D image modeling for fitting, retail sales replenishment and fashion sales forecasting, carrying out a comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges in textile and fashion industry brought by the AI.