U-Net with ResNet Backbone for Garment Landmarking Purpose

Abstract: We build a heatmap-based landmark detection model to locate important landmarks on 2D RGB garment images. The main goal is to detect edges, corners and suitable interior region of the garments. This let us re-create 3D garments in modern 3D editing software by incorporate landmark detection model and texture unwrapping. We use a U-net architecture with ResNet backbone to build the model. With an appropriate loss function, we are able to train a moderately robust model.