SmartRetail - GCP Architecture

 

Have been experimenting/pitching with little or no success. Either people see it as a commodity or see it as an extensive hardware investment. The willingness to experiment with key sections / innovate is hardly there.

• People counting
• Smart Shelf
• Restocking
• Heatmaps
• Dynamic Ads
• Sweethearing

Some key slides from Talk

• Vision for item placement
• Vision for item counting
• Vision for Ads placement

GCP Architecture

• Models run on GCP Kubernetes Engine
• API Gateway
• Images stored in Blobs
• Results in Postgres / BigQuery

• Apps for Endusers
• Notifications

I have pitched and failed but happy to see Infliect, Tangoeye, and other companies shining in this space.

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Retail & Vision - 2.0 Learning

Interesting paper and discussions link

Session #1 - AI for Retail Problems

• AI in retail

• Same product with variations

• Leverage a combination of techniques

• Approach to learn

Session - #2 - Vision for Fashion

• Customizing existing designs to make it better

• Fashion++ alter the design

• Training based on 
• Classifier for fashion estimation
• Suggesting changes

Paper - C O M P U T E R V I S I O N A N D D E E P L E A R N I N G F O R R E TA I L S T O R E

M A N A G E M E N T

• Automatic recognition of items on store shelves and obtaining a reliable 3D reconstruction of an environment for navigation purpose
• Planogram - This arrangement is carefully planned to maximize sales and keep customers happy, currently, however, verifying compliance of real shelves

• Planogram as a grid-like fully connected graph
• Planogram compliance issue related to the checked node is reported (i.e., missing/misplaced item).
• Camera would locally run only model relevant for the Aisle
• Given a shelf image, we perform first a class-agnostic object detection to extract region proposals enclosing the individual product items

• we propose to deploy an image-to-image translation GAN together with the embedding CNN and to optimize the whole architecture end-to-end

More Reads

• A Solution for Product Detection in Densely Packed Scenes
• WORKING WITH SCALE: 2ND PLACE SOLUTION TO PRODUCT DETECTION IN DENSELY PACKED SCENES
• 3D Person Tracking in Retail Stores

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