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The Vision & Beauty Team, Alibaba Group and Institute of Textile & Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University are pleased to announce that they are co-organizing the FashionAI Global Challenge 2018, which will jointly launch a revolutionary dataset which integrates both professional fashion knowledge and machine learning formulation. The world's first FashionAI Global Challenge offers RMB 1.34 million prize pool, inviting you to solve the imminent issues on the application of AI in fashion.
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Key Points Detection of Apparel
The analysis of apparel with computers could be easily affected by the dimension and shape of the apparel, distance and angle of shooting, or even how the apparel is displayed or the model is posing. Contestants are invited to design algorithms to detect key points of apparel images. This task can help to improve the performance of applications such as alignment, recognition of the local attributes and auto-editing of the images of apparel.
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Attributes Recognition of Apparel
Apparel attributes are the basic knowledge of fashion field, which are large and complex. We constructed a hierarchical attributes tree as a structured classification target, to describe the cognitive process of apparel. Contestants are invited to design algorithms to recognize attributes of apparel images. This task might be widely applied for apparel image searching, navigating tagging, mix-and-match recommendation, etc.
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Application
02.01-04.21
Semi-final
04.26-05.24
Preliminary
03.01-04.21
Final and Award Presentation
07.05
Shiguang Shan
Professor
Institute of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liang Wang
Professor, Institute of Automation
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiang Bai
Professor, Huazhong
University of Science & Technology
Binghong Zhan
Professor, Beijing
Institute of Fashion Technology
Cewu Lu
Research Professor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
MIT TR35
Zowie Broach
Professor, Royal College of Art
Head of Fashion
Xiaofeng Ren
Principal Engineer
Machine Intelligence Technology
Alibaba Group
Kim Wong
Professor of Practice
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Eligibility
The FashionAI Global Challenge 2018 is open to the public. Interested individuals, researchers/developers of tertiary education, research institutes or organizations from different sectors and fields are welcome to take part independently or as a team.
Note: Employees of the co-organizers and supporting organizations who have access to the related data are not allowed to take part in the FashionAI Global Challenge 2018.
Application
1.Application start date: 1 February 2018(UTC +8)
2.Deadline for application and changes to team members: 21 April 2018 at 12:00 pm (UTC +8)
3.Team size: Up to 8 members. Each individual can only be part of one team
4.The organizers reserve the right to disqualify participants if the information provided on the application is inaccurate or misleading
Important
1.The dataset provided by the Alibaba Group can only be used for this challenge and its related research activities. Commercial use is strictly prohibited. Any breaches to the rules which cause loss to the Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud and/or other related parties will result in the participant and his/her affiliation bearing full responsibility for any damage or loss.
2.TIANCHI reserves the right to disqualify an individual or team if fraudulent behaviors or activities (including but not limited to manually altered results, results submitted by the same candidate through multiple accounts, etc.) are found.
3. Any individual, its corresponding team and organization that violates any related laws and regulations (including but not limited to the laws governing trademark and intellectual property rights) will be disqualified.
Total prize pool is RMB 1.34 million. Prize for each track values RMB 670,000.
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Champion: RMB 500,000
1 team, an award certificate
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1st Runner Up: RMB 100,000
1 team, an award certificate
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2nd Runner Up: RMB 50,000
1 team, an award certificate
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Fourth-place and Fifth-place: RMB 10,000
An award certificate
Equivalent US dollars available.
Organizer
Co-organizer
Challenge Platform
Dataset Platform
Education Partner
FashionAI
Since 2011, the Vision & Beauty Team of Alibaba Group has been devoted its effort on the understanding of fashion. Based on the systematic construction of computer vision technology and fashion expertise, we constructed a unique AI system called FashionAI. In 2018, we will host the FashionAI Global Challenge 2018 in academic community. Meanwhile, we will launch mobile products online and physical stores offline to the public, which is hopeful that technology, fashion and business will be integrated to lead the path of “creating new business model with technology”.
TAAI
Since 2012, The Textile & Apparel Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) Research Team of Institute of Textiles & Clothing of PolyU has been conducting fundamental and applied research on AI, computer vision and machine learning caters for fashion and textile industry. The Team has published many research articles in leading journals; and will hold the first-ever Artificial Intelligence on Fashion & Textile Conference 2018, bringing together AI researchers on fashion and textile to meet and collaborate.
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