AI Assisted Apparel Design

TL;DR

This paper introduces AI-powered tools to assist apparel designers by generating new clothing designs through style merging and transfer, aiming to streamline design creation and enhance creativity.

Contribution

It presents two novel AI assistants for apparel design, along with a new dataset with detailed apparel component annotations, improving design generation and analysis.

Findings

Generated designs are of high quality and suitable for fabrication.

Designers reported increased creativity and efficiency using the system.

The system effectively analyzes trending apparel attributes.

Abstract

Fashion is a fast-changing industry where designs are refreshed at large scale every season. Moreover, it faces huge challenge of unsold inventory as not all designs appeal to customers. This puts designers under significant pressure. Firstly, they need to create innumerous fresh designs. Secondly, they need to create designs that appeal to customers. Although we see advancements in approaches to help designers analyzing consumers, often such insights are too many. Creating all possible designs with those insights is time consuming. In this paper, we propose a system of AI assistants that assists designers in their design journey. The proposed system assists designers in analyzing different selling/trending attributes of apparels. We propose two design generation assistants namely Apparel-Style-Merge and Apparel-Style-Transfer. Apparel-Style-Merge generates new designs by combining high level components of apparels whereas Apparel-Style-Transfer generates multiple customization of apparels by applying different styles, colors and patterns. We compose a new dataset, named DeepAttributeStyle, with fine-grained annotation of landmarks of different apparel components such as neck, sleeve etc. The proposed system is evaluated on a user group consisting of people with and without design background. Our evaluation result demonstrates that our approach generates high quality designs that can be easily used in fabrication. Moreover, the suggested designs aid to the designers creativity.