Title: Effective fashion labelling via image-based recommendation with deep learning

Authors: P. Valarmathi; R. Dhanalakshmi; Narendran Rajagopalan

Addresses: Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India ' Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Information Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, India ' Department of CSE, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India

Abstract: Tremendous increase in the volume of e-commerce data directs recommender systems to be an efficient approach to overcome this overload of information. Recently, deep learning has been applied in varied business fields such as image processing and natural language processing for higher performance. In particular, fashion organisations have started applying deep learning training methods to their online business. Classification of objects/images is the most significant backbone of these applications. Generally, existing techniques depend on traditional features/attributes to characterise an image, for example, the visual properties retrieved by convolutional neural systems. We have developed a two-tier deep learning system that recommends apparel images based on various apparel images passed as input. To accomplish this, a neural network classification system is employed as a visually aware, data-driven extractor of features. The extracted features and the ranking matrix are taken as the input for similarity-based recommendations employing a significant nearest neighbour algorithm.

Keywords: image recommendation; convolutional neural network; significant nearest neighbour; SNN; VGG16; AlexNet.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2023.134306

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2023 Vol.32 No.1, pp.47 - 59

Received: 11 Nov 2020
Accepted: 24 Apr 2021
Published online: 17 Oct 2023 *

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