Conversations in Machine Learning: An App That Sees, Searches, & Shops

This is another installment of Spare5's "Conversations in Machine Learning" blog series. Each week, our content human, Cassie, shares a summary of a recent conversation we had with a machine learning team and potential customer--what they're building, how they're handling training data today, etc. Read more about the series here. This week I'm featuring a technology that, when I learned about it I said, man I love when people think of stuff like this! Great idea, you technologically inclined people you. So imagine you're flipping through a magazine and see an ad for these great shoes and you're like, those are perfect shoes. You could head to Google, search for the brand, pull up their website, browse for the shoes there… Or you could just snap a picture of them with your phone and let the machine learning-based app we're highlighting today do all the work for you.