mikelmh025/ClothingADC

Clothing-ADC Dataset

Paper: Automatic Dataset Construction (ADC): Sample Collection, Data Curation, and Beyond Authors: Minghao Liu, Zonglin Di, Jiaheng Wei, Zhongruo Wang, Hengxiang Zhang, Ruixuan Xiao, Haoyu Wang, Jinlong Pang, Hao Chen, Ankit Shah, Hongxin Wei, Xinlei He, Zhaowei Zhu, Haobo Wang, Lei Feng, Jindong Wang, James Davis, Yang Liu Institutions: UC Santa Cruz, HKUST(GZ), UC Davis, SUSTech, Zhejiang University, Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, Nanyang Technological University, Microsoft

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Dataset Summary

Clothing-ADC is a large-scale clothing image classification dataset built with the Automatic Dataset Construction (ADC) pipeline. Instead of the traditional approach of collecting images first and then annotating them, ADC reverses this process: it uses GPT-4 to design fine-grained class hierarchies, then automatically collects labeled images from Google Image Search using the class descriptions as queries.

The result is a dataset with over 1 million images, 12 main clothing classes, and 12,000 fine-grained subclasses defined by combinations of color, material, and pattern attributes — all without requiring domain expertise or manual annotation of individual samples.

The dataset also serves as a benchmark platform for three real-world data challenges that arise during automatic dataset construction:

1. Label Noise Detection
2. Learning with Noisy Labels
3. Class-Imbalanced Learning

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Dataset Statistics

Property	Value
Total samples	1,076,738
Image resolution	256 × 256
Main classes	12
Total subclasses	12,000
Avg. samples per subclass	~89.73
Label noise rate (train)	22.2% – 32.7%

Dataset Splits

Split	Size	Label Quality
Train	1,036,738	Web-collected (noisy)
Validation	20,000	Human-verified (clean)
Test	20,000	Human-verified (clean)

Main Classes (12)

Sweater, Windbreaker, T-shirt, Shirt, Knitwear, Hoodie, Jacket, Suit, Shawl, Dress, Vest, Underwear

Subclass Structure

Each main class has 1,000 subclasses defined by three attributes with 10 options each:

Attribute	# Options	Examples
Color	10	white, black, red, navy, grey, …
Material	10	cotton, wool, polyester, denim, …
Pattern	10	solid, striped, plaid, floral, …

Search queries are formed as "<Color> <Material> <Pattern> <Clothing Type>" (e.g., "white cotton fisherman sweater"), which serve simultaneously as the image search query and the sample's fine-grained label.

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ADC Pipeline

The ADC pipeline consists of three steps:

Step 1 — Dataset Design with LLMs GPT-4 is prompted to enumerate attribute options for each clothing category ("Show me <30–80> ways to describe <Attribute> of <Class>"). The resulting categories are reviewed iteratively, avoiding the need for human domain expertise.

Step 2 — Automated Labeling The Google Image API is queried with composite search strings. The top ~100 results per query are collected and labeled automatically. Each query string is the sample's label, eliminating manual annotation entirely.

Step 3 — Data Curation and Cleaning

• Algorithmic curation: Label noise detection methods (e.g., Simi-Feat / Docta) automatically filter mislabeled samples, reducing noise from ~22.2% to ~10.7%.
• Human-in-the-loop (clean splits): For the validation and test sets, human annotators on Amazon MTurk verified labels by selecting correct samples from machine-labeled batches (minimum 4 of 20 per query). Only samples with full human–machine agreement are included in the clean splits.

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Benchmark Tasks

1. Label Noise Detection (Clothing-ADC-Detection)

A 20,000-sample subset with both noisy and clean labels, annotated by 3 Amazon MTurk workers per image (correct / unsure / incorrect). Used to benchmark noise detection algorithms.

Metric: F1-score of detected corrupted instances

Method	F1-Score
CORES	0.4793
Confident Learning (CL)	0.4352
Deep k-NN	0.3991
Simi-Feat	0.5721

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2. Label Noise Learning (Clothing-ADC / Clothing-ADC-Tiny)

Train on the full noisy training set; evaluate on the clean held-out test set. A tiny version (~50K train images) is also provided for fast experimentation.

Metric: Classification accuracy on clean test set (12-class)

Selected results (ResNet-50, 20 epochs):

Method	Full	Tiny
Cross-Entropy (baseline)	—	—
Positive Label Smoothing	↑	↑
Taylor CE	best	best
DivideMix	competitive	competitive

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3. Class-Imbalanced Learning (Clothing-ADC-CLT)

A class-level long-tail version of the dataset, with imbalance ratios ρ ∈ {10, 50, 100}. Noisy samples are removed prior to constructing this benchmark using algorithmic curation (Docta + learning-centric curation), yielding ~562,263 clean images.

Metric: δ-worst accuracy (interpolates between mean accuracy at δ=0 and worst-class accuracy at δ→∞)

Method	ρ=10 (δ=0)	ρ=100 (δ=0)	ρ=10 (δ=∞)	ρ=100 (δ=∞)
Cross-Entropy	57.80	30.10	0.96	0.00
Focal Loss	72.70	62.28	38.12	13.44
LDAM	72.50	63.25	40.90	15.69
Balanced Softmax	74.18	69.47	48.54	50.60
Logit-Adjust	74.08	69.44	47.45	43.26
Drops	73.66	67.15	50.85	32.43

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Comparison with Existing Datasets

Dataset	# Train/Test	# Classes	Noise Rate (%)	Has Attributes	Auto Annotation	Requires Expert?
iNaturalist	579k/279k	54k	~0	✗	✗	✓
WebVision	2.4M/100k	1000	20	✗	✓	✓
ANIMAL-10N	50k/10k	10	8	✗	✗	✗
CIFAR-10N	50k/10k	10	9–40	✗	✗	✗
Food-101N	75.75k/25.25k	101	18.4	✗	✗	✓
Clothing1M	1M total	14	38.5	✗	✗	✓
Clothing-ADC (Ours)	1M/20k	12	22.2–32.7	12k	✓	✗

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Data Fields

Each sample contains:

• id: unique image identifier string
• image: PIL image (256×256 RGB)
• class: main clothing category string (e.g., "Sweater")
• color: color attribute label (e.g., "white")
• material: material attribute label (e.g., "cotton")
• pattern: pattern attribute label (e.g., "fisherman")

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Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Full dataset
ds = load_dataset("mikelmh025/ClothingADC")

# Access splits
train = ds["train"]
val   = ds["validation"]
test  = ds["test"]

# Example: iterate over test set
for sample in test:
    image    = sample["image"]
    category = sample["class"]
    color    = sample["color"]
    material = sample["material"]
    pattern  = sample["pattern"]

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Citation

If you use Clothing-ADC in your research, please cite:

@article{liu2024adc,
  title   = {Automatic Dataset Construction (ADC): Sample Collection, Data Curation, and Beyond},
  author  = {Minghao Liu and Zonglin Di and Jiaheng Wei and Zhongruo Wang and
             Hengxiang Zhang and Ruixuan Xiao and Haoyu Wang and Jinlong Pang and
             Hao Chen and Ankit Shah and Hongxin Wei and Xinlei He and
             Zhaowei Zhu and Haobo Wang and Lei Feng and Jindong Wang and
             James Davis and Yang Liu},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11338},
  year    = {2024}
}

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License

This dataset is released under CC BY 4.0. Images are collected from Google Image Search and remain subject to their original source licenses. This dataset is intended for research purposes only.