This week’s editionA weekly paper on machine learning and what we wear

The weekly paper of clothing, fit and machine learning

Models

How the vision systems behind fit and try-on are actually put together.

Diagram of a garment segmentation mask, with a clean sleeve boundary and a ragged hem boundary marked.
Models

How garment segmentation actually works

Separating a garment from everything else in a photograph sounds like a solved problem. The sleeve is easy; the hem, the hair and the shadow are not.

A skeleton of estimated joint points drawn inside the dashed outline of a loose garment.
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Pose estimation and the draped body

Pose systems describe a body as a skeleton of joints. Clothing is the part of the picture that skeleton was built to ignore.

A flat garment beside the same garment warped onto a body outline, with fold lines added.
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What a virtual try-on model is really doing

A try-on image is a picture of a garment placed convincingly onto a body. Whether it fits is a different question, and the picture is not evidence either way.