Manufacturing and Process Industry
Sustainability and Circular Economy
Research and Development under Contract
Software Engineering and Data Intelligence
Computer Vision, Interaction and Graphics
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and decision support systems
Computer vision and image processing
FRAMEWORK
GreenShoes 4.0 is part of the ambitious vision of the Footwear and Fashion Cluster, which aims to establish our country as a major global reference for consumers and industries in these sectors, through differentiation, creativity, content and value, boosting Portuguese exports based on a strong, sustainable and globally competitive national production, based on knowledge.
GreenShoes 4.0 is part of the ambitious vision of the Footwear and Fashion Cluster, which aims to establish our country as a major global reference for consumers and industries in these sectors, through differentiation, creativity, content and value, boosting Portuguese exports based on a strong, sustainable and globally competitive national production, based on knowledge.
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
GreenShoes 4.0 proposes the development of radical innovations, at the level of strategic value chain business models, product concepts, materials and technologies per se with a lower carbon and digital footprint, which should constitute instruments to increase differentiation in the near future , productivity and diversification of the cluster, supporting sustained growth in exports to the international market.
GreenShoes 4.0 is organized into 5 PPS:
- PPS 1 – CONSUMER & SUSTAINABLITY – Consumer, footwear, leather goods & sustainability
- PPS 2 – MATE – New materials for footwear and leather goods in the eco-efficient economy
- PPS 3 – TECH – Digitization and advanced manufacturing and marketing technologies
- PPS 4 – INOVA – Dissemination, demonstration, experimentation and transfer of results
- PPS5 – COORDENA – Global project coordination
CCG/ZGDV CONTRIBUTION
CCG/ZGDV contributes to GreenShoes, through the CVIG and EPMQ departments, in an integrated platform development for stock management and shoe catalog comprising the following modules:
- Development of a visual search and artificial intelligence module for shoe classification and suggestions
- Development of an automatic photo segmentation module
- Model and database development for the Stock Management System
Tools that help with stock management and forecast sales per item, according to the history and cataloging of shoes, by simplifying the addition of items and suggestions to the customer based on a photograph