Patent Document ID: 9460518
Application ID: 13865142
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: without segmenting an image generating a pose estimation, determining one or more regions of the image that are not likely to depict a product item; generating a masked image that masks the one or more regions; segmenting the masked image into a plurality of image segments based on shared characteristics of pixels that comprise the masked image, each image segment comprising a plurality of pixels that: form a continuous region of the masked image, and share a characteristics, wherein two or more image segments of the plurality of image segments depict a same product; clustering the two or more image segments from the plurality of image segments into an image segment cluster; determining, for the image segment cluster, a particular product class of a plurality of product classes; retrieving, from an image database, one or more product images that are associated with the particular product class and that are selected based on a visual similarity between the one or more product images and the image segment cluster; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.