Fashion Apparel Detection: The Role of Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Pose-dependent Priors

Kota Hara, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Robinson Piramuthu

Published 2014-11-19Version 1

In this work, we propose and address a new computer vision task, which we call fashion item detection, where the aim is to detect various fashion items a person in the image is wearing or carrying. The types of fashion items we consider in this work include hat, glasses, bag, pants, shoes and so on. The detection of fashion items can be an important first step of various e-commerce applications for fashion industry. Our method is based on state-of-the-art object detection method which combines object proposal methods with a Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Since the locations of fashion items are in strong correlation with the locations of body joints positions, we propose a hybrid discriminative-generative model to incorporate contextual information from body poses in order to improve the detection performance. Through the experiments, we demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms baseline methods with a large margin.