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Growing competitiveness and increasing availability of data is generating tremendous interest in data-driven analytics across industries. In the retail sector, stores need targeted guidance to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness…
This article investigates the deployment of a Voice User Interface (VUI)-powered digital assistant in a retail setting and assesses its impact on customer engagement and service efficiency. The study explores how digital assistants can…
Practical applications of computer vision in smart cities usually assume system integration and operation in challenging open-world environments. In the case of person re-identification task the main goal is to retrieve information whether…
Video analytics is the practice of combining digital video data with machine learning models to infer various characteristics from that video. This capability has been used for years to detect objects, movement, and the number of customers…
The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently advanced from an experimental technology to what will become the backbone of future customer value for both product and service sector businesses. This underscores the cardinal role of IoT on the…
Crowd density level estimation is an essential aspect of crowd safety since it helps to identify areas of probable overcrowding and required conditions. Nowadays, AI systems can help in various sectors. Here for safety purposes or many for…
Computer vision algorithms are being implemented across a breadth of industries to enable technological innovations. In this paper, we study the problem of computer vision based customer tracking in retail industry. To this end, we…
Retail sales and price projections are typically based on time series forecasting. For some product categories, the accuracy of demand forecasts achieved is low, negatively impacting inventory, transport, and replenishment planning. This…
Edge computing can be defined as an emerging technology that uses cloud computing to leverage edge data centers to process, store, and analyze data close to the source. Traditional cloud computing architectures are not designed for…
Artificial intelligence technology has made its way absolutely necessary in a variety of industries including the fitness industry. Human pose estimation is one of the important researches in the field of Computer Vision for the last few…
Knowing if a user is a buyer vs window shopper solely based on clickstream data is of crucial importance for ecommerce platforms seeking to implement real-time accurate NBA (next best action) policies. However, due to the low frequency of…
This project focuses on analyzing retail market trends using historical sales data, search trends, and customer reviews. By identifying the patterns and trending products, the analysis provides actionable insights for retailers to optimize…
Shopping behaviour analysis through counting and tracking of people in shop-like environments offers valuable information for store operators and provides key insights in the stores layout (e.g. frequently visited spots). Instead of using…
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the key components of Digital Transformation, along with big data and analytics. IoT, together with the cloud, big data, analytics, machine learning (ML), and deep ML, can help create numerous…
Next-generation wireless networks like 5G promise faster speed, shorter latency, and the ability to connect more devices. Such benefits are set to make drastic changes to the future society, empowering smart cities, enabling autonomous…
The automated analysis of human behaviour provides many opportunities for the creation of interactive systems and the post-experiment investigations for user studies. Commodity depth cameras offer reasonable body tracking accuracy at a low…
Cities have undergone significant changes due to the rapid increase in urban population, heightened demand for resources, and growing concerns over climate change. To address these challenges, digital transformation has become a necessity.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have enormous potential to transform businesses and disrupt entire industry sectors. However, companies wishing to integrate algorithmic decisions into their face multiple challenges: They…
Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand…
Automating the product checkout process at conventional retail stores is a task poised to have large impacts on society generally speaking. Towards this end, reliable deep learning models that enable automated product counting for fast…