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When the demo was released, people had a lot of questions about how the cameras would deal with occlusions and products being covered up by bodies and odd angle
by gwern 10y ago
When the demo was released, people had a lot of questions about how the cameras would deal with occlusions and products being covered up by bodies and odd angles. Recognizing and localizing and tracking a single person picking up individual items slowly is a much easier task than tracking many people in a crowd crisscrossing and blocking the camera constantly; that it is apparently failing in exactly the scaled up realistic scenarios where you would predict increased failures points to it being a genuine difficulty and not simply too few crowded scenes in the training set.
(I bet their deep learning team is having a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make RNNs rather than CNNs scale and train well...)
- strebler 10y agoI had the same question about cameras dealing with those issues, but this article says "Products are embedded with tracking devices that pair with customers’ phones to charge their accounts". It sounds like this means every product has an RFID / other tag, rather than using computer vision.