End-to-End Image-Based Fashion Recommendation
This work addresses fashion recommendation for users by enhancing item representation with image features, but it is incremental as it builds on existing attribute-aware models.
The paper tackled the problem of improving fashion recommendation by incorporating image features into an attribute-aware model, resulting in a model that significantly outperforms state-of-the-art image-based models on two real-world datasets.
In fashion-based recommendation settings, incorporating the item image features is considered a crucial factor, and it has shown significant improvements to many traditional models, including but not limited to matrix factorization, auto-encoders, and nearest neighbor models. While there are numerous image-based recommender approaches that utilize dedicated deep neural networks, comparisons to attribute-aware models are often disregarded despite their ability to be easily extended to leverage items' image features. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective attribute-aware model that incorporates image features for better item representation learning in item recommendation tasks. The proposed model utilizes items' image features extracted by a calibrated ResNet50 component. We present an ablation study to compare incorporating the image features using three different techniques into the recommender system component that can seamlessly leverage any available items' attributes. Experiments on two image-based real-world recommender systems datasets show that the proposed model significantly outperforms all state-of-the-art image-based models.