Your personal fashion expert to help you explore world of clothing

Inspiration

Hardcore coders like us does not like neither want to go shopping, so we decided it would be great if bot could do it for us.

What it does

Our Skype Bot frees your time and takes responsibility for choosing clothes online for you. You just ask him about things you need and he will find most suitable things for you. It can understand natural human language and search by color, season, brand, gender etc. It can also sort results by various aspects like popularity or price, and, most important - find similar items by photo!

How we built it

We used Skype Bot Framework to create a bot, MS LUIS to make it understand natural language and Zalando API to search for products.

Challenges we ran into

Creating AI is hard, especially without any background or experience in it. Making it from scratch means that we need to teach it basic stuff by hand. We were educating our AI continuously and throughout the development process.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating ready and working prototype is the main accomplishment. About more specific things - creating AI from scratch and using it in product. Also implementing image search feels awesome!

What we learned

Basic natural language processing stuff. Basics (and advancements) of bot framework bots, image processing and cognitive service usage in advanced applications.

What's next for Fashion Advice bot

It will be great platform for trying and implementing new AI things.

Built With

azure
botframework
javascript
ms-cognitive-services
node.js
typescript
zalando

Submitted to

Junction 2016

Created by

I worked on bot framework dialogs, dialog logics. It wasn't a first time using bot framework for me, but it WAS a first time using integration with AI.

Dmitrijs Minajevs
I was working with Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS), as well as developing some functionality for bot. It was the first time for me to work with Artificial Intelligence, so it was very hard, but interesting.

Dmitrijs Čuvikovs
Setted up with Language Understanding Intelligent Services, helped with git issues, helped testing bot, reasearched about image recognition services.

Artur Paklin
I have participated in idea development and planning. Made research about used Zalando API. Had a role in LUIS language recognition ai training and development. It was my first time using typescript, so my code contribution turned up lesser than I expected.

Antons Cornijs