Methods and systems for creating reference image templates for identification of products on product storage structures of a product storage facility

Abstract

Systems and methods of creating reference template images for detecting and recognizing products at a product storage facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product storage structure of the product storage facility, and a computing device including a control circuit and being communicatively coupled to the image capture device. The computing device obtains images of the product storage structure captured by the image capture device, analyzes the obtained images to detect individual ones of the products located on the product storage structure. Then, the computing device identifies the individual ones of the products detected in the images and crops each of the individual ones of the identified products from the images to generate cropped images. The computing device then creates a cluster of the cropped images, and selects one of the cropped images as a reference template image of an identified individual product.