# Learning Garment DensePose for Robust Warping in Virtual Try-On

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17688 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.17688/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 29 of its 39 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Mar 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 29 of 29)

- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.08155/) (2016)
- [FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1504.06852/) (2015)
- [FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.01925/) (2016)
- [Free-Form Image Inpainting with Gated Convolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.03589/) (2018)
- [DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.00434/) (2018)
- [A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1508.06576/) (2015)
- [VITON-HD: High-Resolution Virtual Try-On via Misalignment-Aware Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16874/) (2021)
- [VITON: An Image-based Virtual Try-on Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.08447/) (2017)
- [Multi-Garment Net: Learning to Dress 3D People from Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.06903/) (2019)
- [Toward Characteristic-Preserving Image-based Virtual Try-On Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.07688/) (2018)
- [Self-Correction for Human Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.09777/) (2019)
- [View Synthesis by Appearance Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.03557/) (2016)
- [Towards Photo-Realistic Virtual Try-On by Adaptively GeneratingleftrightarrowPreserving Image Content](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.05863/) (2020)
- [Parser-Free Virtual Try-on via Distilling Appearance Flows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.04559/) (2021)
- [High-Resolution Virtual Try-On with Misalignment and Occlusion-Handled Conditions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.14180/) (2022)
- [Towards Multi-pose Guided Virtual Try-on Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.11026/) (2019)
- [Style-Based Global Appearance Flow for Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.01046/) (2022)
- [Continuous Surface Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12438/) (2020)
- [Disentangled Cycle Consistency for Highly-realistic Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.09479/) (2021)
- [Learning to Transfer Texture from Clothing Images to 3D Humans](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.02050/) (2020)
- [Dressing in Order: Recurrent Person Image Generation for Pose Transfer, Virtual Try-on and Outfit Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.07021/) (2021)
- [Pose with Style: Detail-Preserving Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Conditional StyleGAN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.06166/) (2021)
- [ZFlow: Gated Appearance Flow-based Virtual Try-on with 3D Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.07001/) (2021)
- [Toward Accurate and Realistic Outfits Visualization with Attention to Details](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.06593/) (2021)
- [M3D-VTON: A Monocular-to-3D Virtual Try-On Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05126/) (2021)
- [Dressing in the Wild by Watching Dance Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.15320/) (2022)
- [BodyMap: Learning Full-Body Dense Correspondence Map](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09111/) (2022)
- [TemporalUV: Capturing Loose Clothing with Temporally Coherent UV Coordinates](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03671/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Street TryOn: Learning In-the-Wild Virtual Try-On from Unpaired Person Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.16094/) (2023)
- [Learning Flow Fields in Attention for Controllable Person Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.08486/) (2024)
- [OmniVTON: Training-Free Universal Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.15037/) (2025)
- [Enhancing Virtual Try-On with Synthetic Pairs and Error-Aware Noise Scheduling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.04666/) (2025)
- [OmniVTON++: Training-Free Universal Virtual Try-On with Principal Pose Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.14552/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Virtual try-on, i.e making people virtually try new garments, is an active research area in computer vision with great commercial applications. Current virtual try-on methods usually work in a two-stage pipeline. First, the garment image is warped on the person's pose using a flow estimation network. Then in the second stage, the warped garment is fused with the person image to render a new try-on image. Unfortunately, such methods are heavily dependent on the quality of the garment warping which often fails when dealing with hard poses (e.g., a person lifting or crossing arms). In this work, we propose a robust warping method for virtual try-on based on a learned garment DensePose which has a direct correspondence with the person's DensePose. Due to the lack of annotated data, we show how to leverage an off-the-shelf person DensePose model and a pretrained flow model to learn the garment DensePose in a weakly supervised manner. The garment DensePose allows a robust warping to any person's pose without any additional computation. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art equivalent on virtual try-on benchmarks and shows warping robustness on in-the-wild person images with hard poses, making it more suited for real-world virtual try-on applications.