[HN Gopher] Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation
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Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation
Author : polm23
Score : 53 points
Date : 2020-08-27 04:34 UTC (18 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
| krzat wrote:
| A bit offtopic, but my fear with these AI systems is that they
| will create "Discovery channel" effect in other areas - replace
| fewer good quality items, with a flood of passable AI generated
| alternatives, making good quality stuff harder to get. Hope I'm
| wrong.
| whymauri wrote:
| This is already happening with targeted clothing on Facebook.
| The jump from simply scraping FB data and filling in the gaps
| to AI generating the clothing entirely on its own will probably
| happen soon.
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| https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/top/?sort=top&t=mont...
| ThePadawan wrote:
| From what I've seen this is mostly already the state of the
| cosplay industry, except the AI part:
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| * Some big Chinese manufacturers start drafting the easiest way
| to get a passable-enough version of an outfit to sell on
| aliexpress for <$50 in time for Halloween /convention season.
|
| * Fans come up with sewing patterns and jewelry sources on
| their own (a manual process).
| totetsu wrote:
| For some reason I expected this to be from anime image to costume
| sewing pattern.
| Hextinium wrote:
| Same, possibly by taking 3d models and flattening them or
| something. Paper is interesting none the less.
| Animats wrote:
| Right. What it really does is take an image of a character in
| an arbitrary, but mostly standing, position, and returns an
| image in a standard resting stand position. This is neat, but
| costume generation is several steps past that.
|
| Now, if you could take a collection of pictures of a character
| from anime and get a 3D model you could feed a fashion CAD
| system, that would be impressive.
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| There is CAD for fashion, and it's very good.[1] The CAD
| systems understand cloth physics quite well now. A machine
| learning system which takes a set of pictures of a character in
| different poses and tries to make clothing which matches would
| be a useful achievement. It's a big job, but probably do-able.
| The problem is reasonably convex. If you have a character in a
| dress, and you start with a generic dress in the CAD system,
| you can keep tweaking parameters and textures until it matches.
| The ML system doesn't have to invent a 3D dress, just keep
| tweaking a basic form.
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| [1] https://clo3d.com/
| aidenn0 wrote:
| This probably takes us 1 step closer, right? Normalization
| often a first step to recognition.
| vinodc wrote:
| I had to google "cosplay market size" to confirm, but the paper's
| assertion that it's a billion-dollar industry does appear to be
| correct (!)
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| Two of the paper's authors work at the technology arm of
| Zozotown, one of Japan's largest fashion e-commerce sites, which
| points to how this could have practical benefits.
| Kagerjay wrote:
| Does that include Halloween as well?
| trynumber9 wrote:
| Code: https://github.com/tan5o/anime2clothing
| dgellow wrote:
| A Jupyter notebook is available here:
| https://github.com/tan5o/anime2clothing/blob/master/Anime2Cl...
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