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A Federated Approach for Fine-Grained Classification of Fashion Apparel
As online retail services proliferate and are pervasive in modern lives,
applications for classifying fashion apparel features from image data are
becoming more indispensable. Online retailers, from leading companies to
start-ups, can leverage such applications in order to increase profit margin
and enhance the consumer experience. Many notable schemes have been proposed to
classify fashion items, however, the majority of which focused upon classifying
basic-level categories, such as T-shirts, pants, skirts, shoes, bags, and so
forth. In contrast to most prior efforts, this paper aims to enable an in-depth
classification of fashion item attributes within the same category. Beginning
with a single dress, we seek to classify the type of dress hem, the hem length,
and the sleeve length. The proposed scheme is comprised of three major stages:
(a) localization of a target item from an input image using semantic
segmentation, (b) detection of human key points (e.g., point of shoulder) using
a pre-trained CNN and a bounding box, and (c) three phases to classify the
attributes using a combination of algorithmic approaches and deep neural
networks. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is
highly effective, with all categories having average precision of above 93.02%,
and outperforms existing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)-based schemes.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, submitted to IEEE ACCESS (under
review