Computational Technologies for Fashion Recommendation: A Survey

TL;DR

This survey comprehensively reviews recent advances in fashion recommendation technologies, categorizing various tasks, analyzing methods, datasets, limitations, and future directions to bridge research and industry needs.

Contribution

It provides a systematic overview of fashion recommendation research, categorizes sub-tasks, and discusses challenges and future opportunities in the field.

Findings

Categorization of fashion recommendation tasks and methods

Summary of datasets used in the field

Identification of research limitations and future directions

Abstract

Fashion recommendation is a key research field in computational fashion research and has attracted considerable interest in the computer vision, multimedia, and information retrieval communities in recent years. Due to the great demand for applications, various fashion recommendation tasks, such as personalized fashion product recommendation, complementary (mix-and-match) recommendation, and outfit recommendation, have been posed and explored in the literature. The continuing research attention and advances impel us to look back and in-depth into the field for a better understanding. In this paper, we comprehensively review recent research efforts on fashion recommendation from a technological perspective. We first introduce fashion recommendation at a macro level and analyse its characteristics and differences with general recommendation tasks. We then clearly categorize different fashion recommendation efforts into several sub-tasks and focus on each sub-task in terms of its problem formulation, research focus, state-of-the-art methods, and limitations. We also summarize the datasets proposed in the literature for use in fashion recommendation studies to give readers a brief illustration. Finally, we discuss several promising directions for future research in this field. Overall, this survey systematically reviews the development of fashion recommendation research. It also discusses the current limitations and gaps between academic research and the real needs of the fashion industry. In the process, we offer a deep insight into how the fashion industry could benefit from the computational technologies of fashion recommendation.