Keyword Searches
In the past you would need to know the exact keywords for any product you wanted to purchase
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Say...you wanted to buy this bag?
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gray shoulders backpack
You searched keywords
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Your search results are similar but you did not find the bag you want to buy
Image Search Provides a New Way of Shopping
Searching by image rather than keywords makes shopping easier than ever
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How Image Search Works
Discover how image search powers a new shopping experience
User uploads a photo to search
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Category Prediction
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Category Inference
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Focuses on the right category
Subject Detection
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Object Location
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Reduces an interference
Feature Extraction
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Bag Features
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Deep Learning formulates results
Online process
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Local Features
Uploaded image stores
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Create Image Library
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Gather search base
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Subject Detection
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Focus on the commodity
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Feature Extraction
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Describe the commodity
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Offline process
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Search Engine
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Show the most similar results
What Makes Image Search So Powerful
Image Search has been supporting Alibaba's ecommerce platforms TaoBao and Tmall for years and is tried and tested.
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Returns Results In Milliseconds
By using industry-leading deep learning algorithms, Image Search achieves millisecond responses.
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Store Billions of Images Effortlessly
Indexing technology developed inhouse which can support image searches to the level of tens of billions.
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Tried and Trusted
Image search supports one of the largest E-commerce platforms "Taobao" in the world and is already in use by millions upon millions of users.
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Customizable Technology
By making use of visual AI technology from Alibaba Cloud, we can build the image search service for your own business scenarios (e.g. car, textile fabric or trademark).
What Kind of Categories Can be Applied
Image Search supports more than ten shopping categories from shoes to snacks
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Dresses
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Bottoms
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Shoes
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Bags
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Makeups
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Furniture
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Accessories
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Snacks
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Digital Devices
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Toys
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Bottle Drinks
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Others