Demand-adaptive Clothing Image Retrieval Using Hybrid Topic Model

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel approach to meet users' multi-dimensional requirements in clothing image retrieval. It enables users to add search conditions by modifying the color, texture, shape and attribute descriptors of the query images to further refine their requirements. We propose the Hybrid Topic (HT) model to learn the intricate semantic representation of the descriptors above. The model provides an effective multi-dimensional representation of clothes and is able to perform automatic image annotation by probabilistic reasoning from image search. Furthermore, we develop a demand-adaptive retrieval strategy which refines users' specific requirements and removes users' unwanted features. Our experiments show that the HT method significantly outperforms the deep neural network methods. The accuracy could be further improved in cooperation with image annotation and demand-adaptive retrieval strategy.