cross-domain image retrieval SIFT deep learning pooling method

Background:

As the revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is underway around the globe, AI has already begun to reshape industries including the multibillion dollar beauty and personal care industry. In order to promote impactful research and problem solving in this disruptive AI beauty space, the leading beauty app developer, Perfect Corp. in collaborating with CyberLink Corp. and National Chiao Tung University to provide a large-scale image dataset of over half million images of beauty and personal care products, namely the Perfect-500K dataset. Perfect-500K is vast in scale, rich and diverse in content in order to collect as many as possible beauty and personal care items from major e-commerce sites.

About the Task:

Given a real-world image containing one beauty or personal care item (some samples are given below), the task is to match the real-world example of this item to the same item in the Perfect-500K data set. This is a practical but extremely challenging task, given the limitation that only images from e-commerce sites are available in Perfect-500K and no real-world examples will be provided in advance.

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