In plain words: It looks at an outfit photo and suggests the smallest changes—swapping a shirt, changing a color, or loosening pants—to make it look best. Trained on web photos, its edits were rated more fashionable than the originals by people and a scoring model.
Abstract
Given an outfit, what small changes would most improve its fashionability? This question presents an intriguing new vision challenge. We introduce Fashion++, an approach that proposes minimal adjustments to a full-body clothing outfit that will have maximal impact on its fashionability. Our model consists of a deep image generation neural network that learns to synthesize clothing conditioned on learned per-garment encodings. The latent encodings are explicitly factorized according to shape and texture, thereby allowing direct edits for both fit/presentation and color/patterns/material, respectively. We show how to bootstrap Web photos to automatically train a fashionability model, and develop an activation maximization-style approach to transform the input image into its more fashionable self. The edits suggested range from swapping in a new garment to tweaking its color, how it is worn (e.g., rolling up sleeves), or its fit (e.g., making pants baggier). Experiments demonstrate that Fashion++ provides successful edits, both according to automated metrics and human opinion. Project page is at http://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/FashionPlus.
Wei-Lin Hsiao, Isay Katsman, Chao-Yuan Wu, Devi Parikh, Kristen Grauman
arXiv:1904.09261 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 19, 2019 · updated Sep 2, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · accepted to ICCV 2019