Keyword Searches
In the past you would need to know the exact keywords for any product you wanted to purchase

Say...you wanted to buy this bag?

gray shoulders backpack
You searched keywords




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

Category Prediction

Category Inference

Focuses on the right category
Subject Detection

Object Location

Reduces an interference
Feature Extraction

Bag Features

Deep Learning formulates results
Online process
&
Local Features
Uploaded image stores

Create Image Library

Gather search base

Subject Detection

Focus on the commodity

Feature Extraction

Describe the commodity

Offline process

Search Engine

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.

Returns Results In Milliseconds
By using industry-leading deep learning algorithms, Image Search achieves millisecond responses.

Store Billions of Images Effortlessly
Indexing technology developed inhouse which can support image searches to the level of tens of billions.

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.

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

Dresses

Bottoms

Shoes

Bags

Makeups

Furniture

Accessories

Snacks

Digital Devices

Toys

Bottle Drinks

Others