Exploring AI in Fashion: A Review of Aesthetics, Personalization, Virtual Try-On, and Forecasting

TL;DR

This comprehensive review examines recent AI methods in fashion, focusing on aesthetics, personalization, virtual try-on, and forecasting, highlighting technical approaches, datasets, evaluation metrics, and future challenges.

Contribution

It provides an extensive synthesis of AI techniques and datasets across under-surveyed fashion domains, emphasizing cross-domain dependencies and future research directions.

Findings

Summarizes key datasets and metrics used in fashion AI

Highlights cross-domain interactions like aesthetics-informed personalization

Identifies open challenges and promising research directions

Abstract

Fashion-focused artificial intelligence has rapidly advanced in recent years, driven by deep learning and its deployment in recommender systems, detection, retrieval, and analytics. Yet several consumer-facing domains remain comparatively under-surveyed despite their practical impact. This work provides a comprehensive review of methods, datasets, and evaluation metrics across four such domains: aesthetics, personalization, virtual try-on, and forecasting. We synthesize technical approaches spanning representation learning, preference modeling, image transformation, and time-series analysis; relate them to downstream recommender systems and user experience; and highlight cross-domain dependencies (e.g., aesthetics-informed personalization, trend-informed recommendations). We also catalog commonly used datasets and metrics, including those from object detection and image segmentation pipelines, where relevant to try-on and visual understanding. Finally, we identify open challenges and promising directions for integrated AI-driven fashion systems.