University of Texas at Austin researchers and partners developed artificial intelligence (AI) called Fashion ++ that suggests outfit changes to make them more fashionable

Briefing

University of Texas at Austin researchers and partners developed artificial intelligence (AI) called Fashion ++ that suggests outfit changes to make them more fashionable

October 25, 2019

Briefing

  • Fashion Recommendation AI – Researchers from University of Texas at Austin, Cornell Tech, Georgia Tech and Facebook AI Research introduced Fashion ++ artificial intelligence system that recommends more fashionable changes to outfits
  • AI Model Training – Trained image generation system with over 15,000 fashion images, plus 12,000 outfits and their alterations as negative examples
  • What It Does – Provides string of edited images from least changed to most fashionable to give user ideas how to tweak or improve outfit
  • Survey Results – 92% of almost 300 respondents recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk thought Fashion++ recommendations were more fashionable, while on outfits already considered fashionable, 84% said AI’s suggestions were similarly or more fashionable
  • Next Steps – Train AI with more images from broader set of sources, such as social media platforms like Instagram, and adding recommendations according to individual style, occasion or body shape

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Business Model and Practices

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Sector

Consumer Non-Durables, Information Technology, Wholesale and Retail Trade

Function

Research and Development

Organization

Cornell Tech, Facebook Inc., Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin

Source

Original Publication Date

October 23, 2019

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