Carnegie Mellon University

Magesh Kannan

Marios Savvides

Uzair Ahmed

Sreena Nallamothu

Ran Tao

Yutong Zheng

Abhishek Das

Disclosed herein is a system and method of identifying products on a retail shelf using a feature extractor trained to extract features from images of products on the shelf and output identifying information regarding the product in the product image. The extracted features are compared to extracted features in a feature gallery library and a best fit match is obtained. A product ID is then assigned to the image of the product and the assigned product ID is validated by matching the product ID with product identifying information extracted from a shelf label associated with the image of the product.

System and method for identifying products in a shelf management system

Disclosed herein is a system and method of identifying misplaced products on a retail shelf using a feature extractor trained to extract features from images of products on the shelf and output identifying information regarding the product in the product image. The extracted features are compared to extracted features in a product library and a best fit is obtained. A misplaced product is identified if the identifying information produced by the feature extractor fails to match the identifying information associated with the best fit features from the product library.

System and method for identifying misplaced products in a shelf management system

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