A Framework for Garment Shopping over the Internet.doc

A Framework for Garment Shopping over the Internet Nebojsa Jojic, Yong Rui, Yueting Zhuang and Thomas Huang Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA {jojic, yrui, yzhuang, huang}@ In this chapter, we propose a framework for integrated design, advertisement and retailing of garments over the Internet. This on-line shopping framework would make use of the latest research in computer graphics, image processing, computer vision and artificial intelligence. We describe these technologies in more detail, and explain how they can be used to build a visually attractive and easy to use interface to an intelligent integrated system that fulfils most of the functions of the traditional production chain, while allowing for mass-customization. (3D Body Modeling/Reconstruction, Advertisement, Case-Based Reasoning, Content-Based Image Retrieval, Garment Design, Knowledge-Based Design, On-line Shopping, Physics-Based Modeling, Virtual Agents, Virtual Reality) 1. Introduction The modern computer and telecommunication technologies have had an enormous effect on design, manufacturing and marketing in most of the existing industries. Computer aided design (CAD) systems have become indispensable tools for the designers of almost any type of products. The developed designs and the raw materials are the input to the next component in the chain, the highly automated manufacturing processes based on computer aided manufacturing (CAM) tools. The final products are delivered to distributors and retailers, but also advertized through attractively designed video commercials or images presented to the targeted group of users through different media. Computers are also essential for administration, and in modern companies most of the relevant information, such as product and advertisement designs, market analysis results, raw material and final product orders,