AI can figure out sewing patterns from a single photo of clothing

Artificial intelligence can turn a single photo of an item of clothing being worn into accurate sewing patterns to recreate the garment.

Clothing makers use sewing patterns to create the differently shaped pieces of material that make up a garment, using them as templates to cut and sew fabric. Reproducing a pattern from an existing garment can be a time-consuming task, so Xiangyu Xu at Sea AI Lab in Singapore and his colleagues have instead turned to AI.

The team trained an AI model…