Kondo, Shin-ichiroToyoura, MasahiroMao, XiaoyangMetin Sezgin2016-02-252016-02-252014978-1-4503-3018-341812-3503https://doi.org/10.1145/2630407.2630410https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/2630410Although many online shops allow users to search for clothes by categories or keywords, it is usually impossible to specify the details of the design. This paper presents a new technology for retrieving skirt images based on sketches. We first conducted a user study to investigate the typical features illustrated in a sketch. Then algorithms have been developed for automatically extracting those features from both the skirt images and the sketches. A prototype system has been implemented to retrieve and present the best matched skirts in real time when a user interactively sketches her imagined skirt on the canvas.I.3.4 [Computer Graphics]Picture description languages[I.4.7]Image Processing and Computer VisionFeature MeasurementSketchbased image retrievalfeature extraction10.1145/2630407.263041011-16