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Nowadays, fashion has become an essential aspect of people's daily life. As each outfit usually comprises several complementary items, such as a top, bottom, shoes, and accessories, a proper outfit largely relies on the harmonious matching of these items. Nevertheless, not everyone is good at outfit composition, especially those who have a poor fashion aesthetic. Fortunately, in recent years the number of online fashion-oriented communities, like IQON and Chictopia, as well as e-commerce sites, like Amazon and eBay, has grown. The tremendous amount of real-world data regarding people's various fashion behaviors has opened a door to automatic clothing matching.
Despite its significant value, compatibility modeling for clothing matching that assesses the compatibility score for a given set of (equal or more than two) fashion items, e.g., a blouse and a skirt, yields tough challenges: (a) the absence of comprehensive benchmark; (b) comprehensive compatibility modeling with the multi-modal feature variables is largely untapped; (c) how to utilize the domain knowledge to guide the machine learning; (d) how to enhance the interpretability of the compatibility modeling; and (e) how to model the user factor in the personalized compatibility modeling. These challenges have been largely unexplored to date.
In this book, we shed light on several state-of-the-art theories on compatibility modeling. In particular, to facilitate the research, we first build three large-scale benchmark datasets from different online fashion websites, including IQON and Amazon. We then introduce a general data-driven compatibility modeling scheme based on advanced neural networks. To make use of the abundant fashion domain knowledge, i.e., clothing matching rules, we next present a novel knowledge-guided compatibility modeling framework. Thereafter, to enhance the model interpretability, we put forward a prototype-wise interpretable compatibility modeling approach. Following that,noticing the subjective aesthetics of users, we extend the general compatibility modeling to the personalized version. Moreover, we further study the real-world problem of personalized capsule wardrobe creation, aiming to generate a minimum collection of garments that is both compatible and suitable for the user. Finally, we conclude the book and present future research directions, such as the generative compatibility modeling, virtual try-on with arbitrary poses, and clothing generation.
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About the authors
Yinglong Wang is a researcher, Ph.D. Supervisor, and Party Secretary of the Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences). He was declared a Young and Middle-aged Expert with outstanding contributions to Shandong Province and High-End Think Tank Expert of Shandong Province, and he enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. He serves as the vice chairman of the Shandong Science and Technology Association, the president of the Shandong Internet of Things Association, the director of the China-Australia International Health Technology Joint Laboratory, a member of the Shandong Informatization Expert Group, a member of the Shandong Informatization Expert Advisory Committee, and the deputy chairman of the ShandongInformation Standardization Technical Committee. Dr. Wang's main research areas are medical artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. In recent years, he has taken charge of more than 20 national, provincial, and ministerial projects. The scientific research projects led by him won 2 first, 4 second, and 2 third prizes at the Shandong Science and Technology Progress Awards. He has published more than 60 top academic papers and owns more than 20 authorized invention patents. Moreover, he organized the compilation of three volumes of national standards.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compatibility Modeling
Book Subtitle: Data and Knowledge Applications for Clothing Matching
Authors: Xuemeng Song, Liqiang Nie, Yinglong Wang
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02321-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0), eBColl Synthesis Collection 9
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-01193-1Published: 31 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-02321-7Published: 01 June 2022
Series ISSN: 1947-945X
Series E-ISSN: 1947-9468
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 118