Fashioning with Networks: Neural Style Transfer to Design Clothes
This work addresses the need for personalized fashion design for consumers, but it is incremental as it applies an existing neural style transfer method to a new domain.
The paper tackles the problem of generating personalized clothing designs by applying neural style transfer to fashion, using a user's existing wardrobe to learn their style preferences and synthesize new custom clothes, with evaluation based on how well the generated images align with the user's fashion style.
Convolutional Neural Networks have been highly successful in performing a host of computer vision tasks such as object recognition, object detection, image segmentation and texture synthesis. In 2015, Gatys et. al [7] show how the style of a painter can be extracted from an image of the painting and applied to another normal photograph, thus recreating the photo in the style of the painter. The method has been successfully applied to a wide range of images and has since spawned multiple applications and mobile apps. In this paper, the neural style transfer algorithm is applied to fashion so as to synthesize new custom clothes. We construct an approach to personalize and generate new custom clothes based on a users preference and by learning the users fashion choices from a limited set of clothes from their closet. The approach is evaluated by analyzing the generated images of clothes and how well they align with the users fashion style.