When Multimedia Meets Fashion

Through transforming visual fashion into computational images, multimedia technologies are transforming fashion industry at a faster pace than before. The huge demand for fashion analytics triggers promising applications and theoretical research in this area. The future of fashion is being reshaped by multimedia, and researchers are working toward computational fashion.

Even without realizing that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a prerogative in research laboratories of computer science, it is gradually getting well prepared for our everyday lives in a wide range of fields, including health-care, transportation, education, and even fashion. Multimedia, as an important part in AI, provides powerful tools for analyzing, understanding, and predicting fashion. With rich data posted in the fashion communities and online stores from the Internet, multimedia technologies are trying to teach machine to rethink fashion, cultivate fashion sense, and creativity. The collision of fashion and multimedia technologies would definitely bring a new revolution to the fashion industry.