Learning visual similarity for product design with convolutional neural networks
Sean Bell, Kavita Bala
In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 34(4), August 2015.
Abstract: Popular sites like Houzz, Pinterest, and LikeThatDecor, have communities of users helping each other answer questions about products in images. In this paper we learn an embedding for visual search in interior design. Our embedding contains two different domains of product images: products cropped from internet scenes, and products in their iconic form. With such a multi-domain embedding, we demonstrate several applications of visual search including identifying products in scenes and finding stylistically similar products. To obtain the embedding, we train a convolutional neural network on pairs of images. We explore several training architectures including re-purposing object classifiers, using siamese networks, and using multitask learning. We evaluate our search quantitatively and qualitatively and demonstrate high quality results for search across multiple visual domains, enabling new applications in interior design.
Article URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2766959
BibTeX format:
@article{10.1145-2766959,
  author = {Sean Bell and Kavita Bala},
  title = {Learning visual similarity for product design with convolutional neural networks},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  volume = {34},
  number = {4},
  articleno = {98},
  month = aug,
  year = {2015},
}
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