# Exploiting Latent Codes: Interactive Fashion Product Generation, Similar Image Retrieval, and Cross-Category Recommendation using Variational Autoencoders

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01053 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.01053/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Sep 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Smart Fashion: A Review of AI Applications in the Fashion & Apparel Industry](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.00905/) (2021)
- [Visually Similar Products Retrieval for Shopsy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.04560/) (2022)
- [Modelling nonlinear dependencies in the latent space of inverse scattering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10307/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The rise of deep learning applications in the fashion industry has fueled advances in curating large-scale datasets to build applications for product design, image retrieval, and recommender systems. In this paper, the author proposes using Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to build an interactive fashion product application framework that allows the users to generate products with attributes according to their liking, retrieve similar styles for the same product category, and receive content-based recommendations from other categories. Fashion product images dataset containing eyewear, footwear, and bags are appropriate to illustrate that this pipeline is applicable in the booming industry of e-commerce enabling direct user interaction in specifying desired products paired with new methods for data matching, and recommendation systems by using VAE and exploiting its generated latent codes.