Towards a Unified Framework for Visual Compatibility Prediction

Anirudh Singhal, Ayush Chopra, Kumar Ayush, Utkarsh Patel Govind, Balaji Krishnamurthy; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020, pp. 3607-3616

Visual compatibility prediction refers to the task of determining if a set of items go well together. Existing techniques for compatibility prediction prioritize sensitivity to type or context in item representations and evaluate using a fill-in-the-blank (FITB) task. We scale the FITB task to stress-test existing methods which highlight the need for a compatibility prediction framework that is sensitive to multiple modalities of item relationships. In this work, we introduce a unified framework for compatibility learning that is jointly conditioned on the type, context, and style. The framework is composed of TC-GAE, a graph-based network that models type & context; SAE, an autoencoder that models style; and a reinforcement-learning based search technique that incorporates these modalities to learn a unified compatibility measure. We conduct experiments on two standard datasets and significantly outperform existing state-of-the-art methods. We also present qualitative analysis and discussions to study the impact of components of the proposed framework.