MFR-CNN: A modified faster R-CNN approach based on bounding box and reliable score for cloth image retrieval

Today, machine learning is used in a broad variety of applications. Convolution neural networks (CNN), in particular, are widely used to analyze visual data. The fashion industry is catching up to the growing usage of machine learning in a variety of fields throughout the world. The proposed model named MFR-CNN, which is a modified Faster R-CNN approach, has been presented in this manuscript. The effectiveness of an algorithm is validated on cloth attributes by established datasets such as the Deep Fashion dataset and the Fashion Landmark dataset, alongside a new dataset created for the same manually. The proposed model detects clothes using bounding boxes and further classifies them. Apart from this, retrieval functionality has also been added. The effectiveness of the proposed model is evident through the learning rate analysis done for the modules present in the same. On the metrics of accuracy, execution time, and total loss, the model proposed here is contrast with existing techniques named R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, and Faster R-CNN. It is found that MFR-CNN is 50% more accurate in contrast to R-CNN. Also, the accuracy of MFR-CNN is 30% and 7% more accurate than the Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN, respectively. Moreover, MFR-CNN is quite effective in contrast to other approaches as it takes less time for execution. It consumes 33 seconds less in contrast to R-CNN. Also, the time taken by the MFR-CNN is 17 seconds and 3 seconds less in comparison to Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN, respectively. From the experimental results it is being inferred that the MFR-CNN approach for detecting and classifying clothes is both efficient and effective.