garment-detector-seg

Instance segmentation of garments, accessories, and garment components in photographs. RF-DETR-Seg (Apache 2.0) fine-tuned on Fashionpedia (CC BY 4.0), predicting all 46 Fashionpedia classes: 13 main garments (shirt/blouse … cape), 14 accessories, and 19 garment parts (collar, lapel, sleeve, pocket, neckline, zipper, buckle, and trim classes such as rivet, ruffle, sequin).

Built for wholesale apparel manufacturing QC, not e-commerce tagging: the segmentation masks feed deterministic color measurement, and the part classes map to BOM trim lines and construction details in a tech pack. It is one of two models in a pipeline (see garment-attributes for fine-grained construction attributes).

Intended use

• Locate garments and their visible components in sample/production photos.
• Provide masks for downstream color QC (ΔE2000 against a spec target).
• Verify component presence/count against a tech pack (e.g. "2 flap pockets, 1 center-front zipper, no hood").

Out of scope: fiber content, GSM, measurements, stitch class, interior construction — none of these are visually determinable and this model does not pretend to output them.

Training

• Base: RF-DETR-Seg-Small (Apache 2.0), DINOv2 backbone, 33.6M params.
• Data: Fashionpedia train2020 (45,623 images, 333,401 instances), converted by scripts/prepare_detector_data.py (attributes stripped; masks kept).
• Recipe: scripts/train_detector.py with configs/detector_mac.yaml (8 epochs, effective batch 16, lr 1e-4, fp16 AMP, trained on Apple-silicon MPS in ~37 hours).

Evaluation (Fashionpedia val2020, 1,158 images, epoch 8)

Strongest classes: dress (0.87), pants (0.84), jacket and coat (approx. 0.75). Weakest: small trims — zipper (0.10), beads/appliqué (0.05) — and rare categories (cape, jumpsuit). Full per-class table ships in this repo.

Small trim classes (rivet, bead, sequin) score materially lower than garment classes in all published Fashionpedia baselines; expect the same here and check the per-class table in runs/detector before relying on a trim class for QC decisions.

Known limitations & biases

• Fashionpedia images are street/celebrity photos of worn garments; performance on flat-lay or on-hanger factory photos is lower. Fine-tune on in-domain photos for production deployment (the training script supports any COCO-format dataset).
• Occluded components (e.g. back pockets in a front photo) are not detected — the downstream validator reports missing components as REVIEW, not FAIL, for this reason.
• Small trims (<32 px) are frequently missed at 1024-px inference resolution.
• Dataset skews toward Western womenswear street fashion; expect weaker performance on technical/workwear categories.

License & attribution

Weights: Apache 2.0. Training data: Fashionpedia, CC BY 4.0 — cite Jia et al., Fashionpedia: Ontology, Segmentation, and an Attribute Localization Dataset, ECCV 2020. Architecture: RF-DETR (Roboflow, Apache 2.0), ICLR 2026.

Usage

from rfdetr import RFDETRSegSmall
model = RFDETRSegSmall(pretrain_weights="checkpoint_best_ema.pth")
detections = model.predict("sample.jpg", threshold=0.5)

Full pipeline (attributes + color + tech pack validation): see the garment-classifier repository this model ships with.

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