Content based image search for clothing recommendations in E-Commerce

Abstract

A number of algorithms exist in measuring clothing similarity for clothing recommendations in E-commerce. The clothing similarity mostly depends on its shape, texture and style. In this paper we introduce three models of defining feature space for clothing recommendations. The sketch-based image search mainly focuses on defining similarity of clothing in contour dimension. The spatial bagof-feature approach is employed to measure the clothing similarity of local image patterns. Finally, we introduce a query adaptive shape model which combines shape characteristics and labels of clothing, in order to take the semantic information of clothing. A large number of simulations are given to show the feasibility and performance of the clothing recommendations by using content-based image search.