  Language-based fashion image editing allows users to try out variations of
desired garments through provided text prompts. Inspired by research on
manipulating latent representations in StyleCLIP and HairCLIP, we focus on
these latent spaces for editing fashion items of full-body human datasets.
Currently, there is a gap in handling fashion image editing due to the
complexity of garment shapes and textures and the diversity of human poses. In
this paper, we propose an editing optimizer scheme method called Text-Driven
Garment Editing Mapper (TD-GEM), aiming to edit fashion items in a disentangled
way. To this end, we initially obtain a latent representation of an image
through generative adversarial network inversions such as Encoder for Editing
(e4e) or Pivotal Tuning Inversion (PTI) for more accurate results. An
optimization-based Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) is then
utilized to guide the latent representation of a fashion image in the direction
of a target attribute expressed in terms of a text prompt. Our TD-GEM
manipulates the image accurately according to the target attribute, while other
parts of the image are kept untouched. In the experiments, we evaluate TD-GEM
on two different attributes (i.e., "color" and "sleeve length"), which
effectively generates realistic images compared to the recent manipulation
schemes.
