FA-VTON: A Feature Alignment-Based Model for Virtual Try-On

The virtual try-on technology based on 2D images aims to seamlessly transfer provided garments onto target person images. Prior methods mainly concentrated on warping garments and generating images, overlooking the influence of feature alignment on the try-on results. In this study, we initially analyze the distortions present by existing methods and elucidate the critical role of feature alignment in the extraction stage. Building on this, we propose a novel feature alignment-based model (FA-VTON). Specifically, FA-VTON aligns the upsampled higher-level features from both person and garment images to acquire precise boundary information, which serves as guidance for subsequent garment warping. Concurrently, the Efficient Channel Attention mechanism (ECA) is introduced to generate the final result in the try-on generation module. This mechanism enables adaptive adjustment of channel feature weights to extract important features and reduce artifact generation. Furthermore, to make the student network focus on salient regions of each channel, we utilize channel-wise distillation (CWD) to minimize the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence between the channel probability maps of the two networks. The experiments show that our model achieves better results in both qualitative and quantitative analyses compared to current methods on the popular virtual try-on datasets.