Title
The Elements of Fashion Style.
Abstract
The outfits people wear contain latent fashion concepts capturing styles, seasons, events, and environments. Fashion theorists have proposed that these concepts are shaped by design elements such as color, material, and silhouette. A dress may be \"bohemian\" because of its pattern, material, trim, or some combination of them: it is not always clear how low-level elements translate to high-level styles. In this paper, we use polylingual topic modeling to learn latent fashion concepts jointly in two languages capturing these elements and styles. Using this latent topic formation we can translate between these two languages through topic space, exposing the elements of fashion style. We train the polylingual topic model (PLTM) on a set of more than half a million outfits collected from Polyvore, a popular fashion-based social net- work. We present novel, data-driven fashion applications that allow users to express their needs in natural language just as they would to a real stylist and produce tailored item recommendations for these style needs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2984511.2984573
UIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fashion, elements, styles, polylingual topic modeling
Design elements and principles,Silhouette,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Natural language,Topic model,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.63
23
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kristen Vaccaro11157.66
Sunaya Shivakumar2120.63
Ziqiao Ding3120.63
Karrie Karahalios41674174.11
Ranjitha Kumar531319.54