eBay taps computer vision to transform online shopping

Brandon McGee

5 years ago

“Offering buyers the ability to look for similar or exact items using images instead of text has become fairly standard in the industry, but launching the feature in 2017 was a big deal
‘First, we did our training separately,’ he explained. ‘We trained the models on the public cloud, where we could access [graphic processing units]. Then we did the inference and deployment locally.’
The question should never be what new technology can be adopted, but what customer problems can be solved, Mekel-Bobrov said.
The ecommerce giant is now ‘turbocharging’ its platform to make computer vision an integral part of the experience for both buyers and sellers, Mekel-Bobrov said.”