Artificial Intelligence on Fashion and Textile (AIFT) will be held simultaneously with Shanghai Tex, November 25 to 27, 2019. AIFT will provide an open platform for researchers, engineers and practitioners in the area of AI, fashion and textile to explore the ways of driving the industry toward Industry 4.0 and the new era of retail. Speakers will cover the 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 the textile and fashion industry brought by AI.

AIFT will develop a long-term cooperation with Shanghai Tex 2019. An Artificial Intelligence alliance will be established together with a number of institutions during AIFT 2019. Adopting research, application, popularization as its core values, AIFT aims at connecting researchers and industry practitioners to accelerate the development and application of AI in the textile and fashion industry.

Computer technology, especially AI’s rapid development over the past 20 years, has changed lifestyle and society. The textile and fashion industry will step into the fourth industrial revolution as soon as mature technology applications in production processes become routine.