MFANet: A Collar Classification Network Based on Multi-Scale Features and an Attention Mechanism

Xiao Qin, Shanshan Ya, Changan Yuan (), Dingjia Chen, Long Long and Huixian Liao
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Xiao Qin: Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
Shanshan Ya: Guangxi Key Lab of Human–Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China
Changan Yuan: Guangxi Key Lab of Human–Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China
Dingjia Chen: Guangxi Key Lab of Human–Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China
Long Long: Guangxi Key Lab of Human–Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China
Huixian Liao: Guangxi Key Lab of Human–Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning 530007, China

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-16

Abstract: The collar is an important part of a garment that reflects its style. The collar classification task is to recognize the collar type in the apparel image. In this paper, we design a novel convolutional module called MFA (multi-scale features attention) to address the problems of high noise, small recognition target and unsatisfactory classification effect in collar feature recognition, which first extracts multi-scale features from the input feature map and then encodes them into an attention weight vector to enhance the representation of important parts, thus improving the ability of the convolutional block to combat noise and extract small target object features. It also reduces the computational overhead of the MFA module by using the depth-separable convolution method. Experiments on the collar dataset Collar6 and the apparel dataset DeepFashion6 (a subset of the DeepFashion database) show that MFANet is able to perform at a relatively small number of collars. MFANet can achieve better classification performance than most current mainstream convolutional neural networks for complex collar images with less computational overhead. Experiments on the standard dataset CIFAR-10 show that MFANet also outperforms current mainstream image classification algorithms.

Keywords: deep learning; image classification; collar classification; attention mechanism; multi-scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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