FEIDEGGER: A Multi-modal Corpus of Fashion Images and Descriptions in German

Leonidas Lefakis, Alan Akbik, Roland Vollgraf

Abstract: The availability of multi-modal datasets that pair images and textual descriptions of their content has been a crucial driver in progress of various text-image tasks such as automatic captioning and text-to-image retrieval. In this paper, we present FEIDEGGER, a new multi-modal corpus that focuses specifically on the domain of fashion items and their visual descriptions in German. We argue that such narrow-domain multi-modality presents a unique set of challenges such as fine-grained image distinctions and domain-specific language, and release this dataset to the research community to enable study of these challenges. This paper illustrates our crowdsourcing strategy to acquire the textual descriptions, gives an overview over the \dataset~dataset, and discusses possible use cases.