Virtual ID Discovery from E-commerce Media at Alibaba
Yanhao Zhang, Pan Pan, Yun Ping Zheng, Kang Zhao, Jianmin Wu, Yinghui Xu, Rong Jin · 2019
Visual search plays an essential role for E-commerce. To meet the search demands of users and promote shopping experience at Alibaba, visual search relevance of real-shot images is becoming the bottleneck. Traditional visual search paradigm is usually based upon supervised learning with labeled data. However, large-scale categorical labels are required with expensive human annotations, which limits its applicability and also usually fails in distinguishing the real-shot images.