Title
Task-Aware Attention Model for Clothing Attribute Prediction
Abstract
Clothing attribute recognition, especially in unconstrained street images, is a challenging task for multimedia. Existing methods for multi-task clothing attribute prediction often ignore the relation between specific attributes and positions. However, the attribute response is always location-sensitive, i.e., different spatial locations have various contributions to attributes. Inspired by the locality of clothing attributes, in this paper, we introduce the attention mechanism to incorporate the impact of positions for clothing attribute prediction with only image-level annotations. However, the performance improvement is limited if we directly use the traditional spatial attention model for each task since it does not take the influence from other tasks into account. Instead, we propose a novel task-aware attention mechanism, which estimates the importance of each position across different tasks. We first evaluate a task attention network with an end-to-end multi-task clothing attribute learning architecture on the shop domain. And then, we employ curriculum learning strategy, which transfers the well-trained shop domain attribute knowledge to the street domain attribute prediction. Experiments are conducted on three clothing benchmarks, i.e., cross-domain clothing attribute dataset, woman clothing dataset, and man clothing dataset. The performance of attribute prediction demonstrates the superiority of the proposed task-aware attention mechanism over several state-of-the-art methods both in shop and street domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2902268
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Clothing,Task analysis,Semantics,Visualization,Image color analysis,Feature extraction,Information security
Journal
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1051-8215
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanyi Zhang1221.97
Zhanjie Song2604.03
Xiaochun Cao31986131.55
Hua Zhang425315.16
Jie Zhou52103190.17