Artificial Intelligence for Fashion: How AI is Revolutionizing the Fashion Industry

© Leanne Luce 2019

Leanne LuceArtificial Intelligence for Fashionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3931-5_4

4. Neural Networks and Image Search

Leanne Luce¹ 

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San Francisco, CA, USA

 

I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It’ll just know this is something that you’re going to want to see.

—Ray Kurzweil, author, director of engineering, Google

It’s hard to imagine an industry that relies on images more than the fashion industry. Almost every process, from manufacturing to marketing, revolves around images. This chapter discusses methods for classifying images, developments in neural networks that have been improving these methods, and the basics of how neural networks work. ...