An Improved Deep Learning Approach For Product Recognition on Racks in Retail Stores

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13081v1
• Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 06:51:36 GMT
• Title: An Improved Deep Learning Approach For Product Recognition on Racks in Retail Stores
• Authors: Ankit Sinha, Soham Banerjee and Pratik Chattopadhyay
• Abstract summary: Automated product recognition in retail stores is an important real-world application in the domain of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. We develop a two-stage object detection and recognition pipeline comprising of a Faster-RCNN-based object localizer and a ResNet-18-based image encoder. Each of the models is fine-tuned using appropriate data sets for better prediction and data augmentation is performed on each query image to prepare an extensive gallery set for fine-tuning the ResNet-18-based product recognition model.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automated product recognition in retail stores is an important real-world application in the domain of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. In this paper, we consider the problem of automatically identifying the classes of the products placed on racks in retail stores from an image of the rack and information about the query/product images. We improve upon the existing approaches in terms of effectiveness and memory requirement by developing a two-stage object detection and recognition pipeline comprising of a Faster-RCNN-based object localizer that detects the object regions in the rack image and a ResNet-18-based image encoder that classifies the detected regions into the appropriate classes. Each of the models is fine-tuned using appropriate data sets for better prediction and data augmentation is performed on each query image to prepare an extensive gallery set for fine-tuning the ResNet-18-based product recognition model. This encoder is trained using a triplet loss function following the strategy of online-hard-negative-mining for improved prediction. The proposed models are lightweight and can be connected in an end-to-end manner during deployment for automatically identifying each product object placed in a rack image. Extensive experiments using Grozi-32k and GP-180 data sets verify the effectiveness of the proposed model.

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