README.md

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# 👗 Fashion Category Classifier

A Hugging Face Space that uses specialized AI models to accurately classify clothing items from images. It first isolates the garment using segmentation to avoid background noise, then performs fine-grained classification using a model trained on fashion data.

## How it Works

1.  **Segmentation**: The image is processed by a `SegFormer` model fine-tuned on clothing segmentation (`mattmdjaga/segformer_b2_clothes`). This model identifies and creates a precise mask around the main clothing item.
2.  **Isolation**: The image is cropped to this mask, removing any distracting background.
3.  **Classification**: The isolated garment is analyzed by a FashionCLIP model (`edwardjross/fashion-clip`), which compares it to a detailed list of fashion categories to find the best match.

This two-step process significantly reduces "hallucinations" and improves accuracy.