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July 17, 2021

RetailVisionWorkshop2021 Notes

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Key Notes
  • Physical stores are becoming digital
  • Products more easily searcheable
  • Better experiences at stores
  • Minimize loss of sales
Use cases
  • Product Detection Challenges
  • Pricing challenges based on data
RetailVisionWorkshop2021 Pricing Challenge - Ehud Barnea
Key Notes
  • Price from bounding boxes
  • Remove promotion content and read price content
  • Country differences
  • Winning Solution
Dataset Features

RetailVisionWorkshop2021 - Gang Hua



  • 360 degree camera to scan everything in store
  • 3D construction of motion structure reconstruction
  • Shelf detections in 360 cameras
  • Identify Shelf level information
  • Optimal robot position to capture shelf images
  • Create Digital twin duplicate product


  • Assortment planning for online vs offline






06 RetailVisionWorkshop2021 - Sean Bell
Detection, Features, Character Embedding



  • Large scale embedding for product recognition







Loss Functions
  • Anchor image
  • Distances corresponding to same product
  • Same vs Different products
  • ArcFace Loss
  • Every product has centres
  • Compare anchors and centres


Combination of Vision + Word Embedding for product categorization

GeM Pooling
  • Feature map at top of Network
  • Average over spatial dimensions
Product Recognition



07 RetailVisionWorkshop2021 - Aviv Eisenschtat




  • Dynamic Shelf Reality
  • New Visual designs of products



  • Combination of techniques
  • Similar products
  • Product Category
  • Clustering for similar images








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