Samasource and Cornell Tech announce imaterialist-fashion

Visual analysis of clothing is a topic that has received increasing attention, with benefits for brands and consumers. Being able to recognise apparel products and associated attributes (for example, lace or beading) from pictures could enhance the shopping experience and drive efficiency for retailers, said Samasource in a press release.

The Cornell Tech research team turned to Artificial Intelligence trained by Samasource with the goal of introducing a novel, fine-grained segmentation task by joining forces between the fashion and computer vision industries. The Cornell Tech team proposed a fashion taxonomy built by fashion experts, informed by product description from the internet. To capture the complex structure of fashion objects and ambiguity in descriptions obtained from crawling the web, the standardised taxonomy contains 46 apparel objects (27 main apparel items and 19 apparel parts), and 92 related fine-grained attributes. A total of around 50 thousand clothing images in daily-life, celebrity events, and online shopping were labeled by Samasource’s fashion annotators for fine-grained segmentation.

The Cornell Tech and Samasource teams used Samasource’s secured cloud annotation platform, Samahub, to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. This includes image upload, annotation, data sampling and QA, data delivery, and overall collaboration. Additionally, automated workflows in the Samahub task que enables a dedicated, trained team of Samasource workers to annotate targeted images in record time.

“Quality data is important for algorithmic success. Using the Samahub, Samasource’s fashion annotators were consistently able to produce quality results and on time deliveries for the Cornell Tech team to help further our research and development for the fashion dataset,” said Cornell Tech professor Serge Belongie. “This dataset will facilitate significant advances in computer vision with the potential for wide-reaching consumer engagement.”

“At Samasource, we’re committed to advancing the AI industry, including supporting open source data initiatives. We’re thankful to the Cornell Tech team for sharing this vision and facilitating the development of this open source dataset. They were the ideal partner,” said Loic Juillard, VP engineering, Samasource.

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Fibre2Fashion News Desk – India