Jewelry Recognition via Encoder-Decoder Models

Abstract

Jewelry recognition is a complex task due to the different styles and designs of accessories. Precise descriptions of the various accessories is something that today can only be achieved by experts in the field of jewelry. In this work, we propose an approach for jewelry recognition using computer vision techniques and image captioning, trying to simulate this expert human behavior of analyzing accessories. The proposed methodology consist on using different image captioning models to detect the jewels from an image and generate a natural language description of the accessory. Then, this description is also utilized to classify the accessories at different levels of detail. The generated caption includes details such as the type of jewel, color, material, and design. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in accurately recognizing different types of jewels, a dataset consisting of images of accessories belonging to jewelry stores in C´ordoba (Spain) has been created. After testing the different image captioning architectures designed, the final model achieves a captioning accuracy of 95%. The proposed methodology has the potential to be used in various applications such as jewelry e-commerce, inventory management or automatic jewels recognition to analyze people’s tastes and social status.