David Scott, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Instacart, presents the “Real-time Retail Product Classification on Android Devices Inside the Caper AI Cart” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this talk, Scott explores deploying an embedded computer vision model on Android devices for real-time product classification with the goal of increased customer satisfaction during shopping. He dives into the details of achieving real-time inference on a low-resource system via a state machine approach based on a machine learning pipeline.
Scott touches on the challenges of seamlessly integrating with existing Android ecosystems and running real-time machine learning without hindering other device functions. He also highlights preliminary results, emphasizing minimizing system resource usage. You’ll learn how Instacart is leveraging AI in retail, aligning with the company’s goal of driving innovation in the retail sector to enhance the retail experience.
See here for a PDF of the slides.
