Fabric Image Retrieval System Using Hierarchical Search Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Fabric image retrieval is a meaningful issue, due to its potential values in many areas such as textile product design, e-commerce, and inventory management. Meanwhile, it is challenging because of the diversity of fabric appearance. Encourage by the recent breakthrough in the deep convolutional neural network (CNN), a deep learning framework is applied for fabric image retrieval. The idea of the proposed framework is that the binary code and feature for representing the image can be learning by a deep CNN when the data labels are available. The proposed framework employs a hierarchical search strategy that includes coarse-level retrieval and fine-level retrieval. Otherwise, a large-scale wool fabric image retrieval dataset named WFID with about 20 000 images are built to validate the proposed framework. The longitudinal comparison experiments for self-parameter optimization and horizontal comparison experiments for verifying the superiority of the algorithm are performed on this data set. The comparison experimental results indicate the superiority of the proposed framework.