Appier demonstrates breakthrough in AI creativity

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, demonstrated pioneering research that showcased AI’s ability to be creative at the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), one of the world’s leading conferences in AI, says a Media OutReach release Tuesday.

AI’s ability to create and design items that humans will find appealing is considered the next important breakthrough in the field - and Appier’s research suggests that the day when AI can help designers in their day-to-day work might be closer than we thought.

The Appier team, comprising Yong-Siang Shih, Dr. Kai-Yueh Chang and Dr. Hsuan-Tien Lin from Appier and Prof. Min Sun from National Tsing Hua University, designed an AI model that first mimics the human ability to put together and design outfits, after observing and learning from examples of good design. They did this with deep learning techniques in combination with a new Projected Compatibility Distance (PCD) methodology which they designed, that discerns the distance between compatible items.

This compatibility distance is then used to run through a unique application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate novel compatible apparel items when apparel images are input. The output results capture the designers’ concept of how different apparel items combine with one another and is then used to create new apparel designs.