SFT Distinguished Research Seminar Series on Fashion Design, Business and Technology | Enabling Technology for Personalized Clothing
Seminars & Talks
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Date
10 Feb 2023
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Organiser
School of Fashion & Textiles
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Time
10:00 - 11:00
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Venue
Zoom
Speaker
Prof. Bugao XU
Summary
This presentation provides a holistic review on the recent development of key technology to enable the personalization for clothing, including 3D body scanning, body surface modeling, pattern alteration, and virtual try-on. Body scanning is a mean to generate 3D data clouds of body and can be performed in an approach of point, line or area scans. Each of these approaches has its own pros and cons in terms of accuracy, speed and cost. Body surface modeling is a step to reduce noise and fill gaps/voids in the data clouds, and to identify key locations where body measurements need to be taken for apparel design. Pattern alteration is a procedure that can automatically modify the pattern pieces of a predesigned garment based on the extracted body dimensions. Virtual try-on is an approach to wrap and drape the pattern pieces on the digital body model to form a virtual garment that can be evaluated on its fit to the body and can be changed recursively. These processes will be elaborated with illustrations, formulas, and examples, many of which are from the speaker’s research outcomes.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Bugao XU
Professor, University of North Texas
Prof. Bugao Xu received his Ph. D. from the University of Maryland at College Park in August 1992, started his career at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) as an Assistant Professor in January 1993, and later became an Associate Professor in 1999 and a Full Professor in 2004. In August 2016, he joined the faculty of the University of North Texas (UNT) as a professor and chair of the Department of Merchandising and Digital Retailing. He also has a joint appointment with UNT’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His investigative work focuses on digital modeling and characterization of textile materials, 3D body imaging, apparel fit and customization, made-to-measure clothing, and applications of artificial intelligence in retail. Meanwhile, he is engaged in cross-disciplinary research, such as obesity assessment and automated pavement inspection. To date, he has authored over 210 refereed journal publications (including >170 SCI-indexed journal papers), and received $5.3 million grants from NSF, USDA, NIH, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Food and Fiber Commission, Cotton Inc., Walmart Manufacturing Innovation Fund, Milliken, etc. He also did extensive consultative/cooperative work with P&G, Unilever, J&J, Maytag and other companies.
