Towards Miss Universe automatic prediction: The evening gown competition

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Carvajal, Johanna
Wiliem, Arnold
Sanderson, Conrad
Lovell, Brian
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2016
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Can we predict the winner of Miss Universe after watching how they stride down the catwalk during the evening gown competition? Fashion gurus say they can! In our work, we study this question from the perspective of computer vision. In particular, we want to understand whether existing computer vision approaches can be used to automatically extract the qualities exhibited by the Miss Universe winners during their catwalk. This study can pave the way towards new vision-based applications for the fashion industry. To this end, we propose a novel video dataset, called the Miss Universe dataset, comprising 10 years of the evening gown competition selected between 1996-2010. We further propose two ranking-related problems: (1) Miss Universe Listwise Ranking and (2) Miss Universe Pairwise Ranking. In addition, we also develop an approach that simultaneously addresses the two proposed problems. To describe the videos we employ the recently proposed Stacked Fisher Vectors in conjunction with robust local spatio-temporal features. From our evaluation we found that although the addressed problems are extremely challenging, the proposed system is able to rank the winner in the top 3 best predicted scores for 5 out of 10 Miss Universe competitions.

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2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)

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Carvajal, J; Wiliem, A; Sanderson, C; Lovell, B, Towards Miss Universe automatic prediction: The evening gown competition, 2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016