Searchable texture index
    92.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10402885B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US15609930

    申请日:2017-05-31

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: Electronic content that has a tactile dimension when presented on a tactile-enabled computing device may be referred to as tactile-enabled content. A tactile-enabled device is a device that is capable of presenting tactile-enabled content in a manner that permits a user to experience tactile quality of electronic content. In one example embodiment, a system is provided for generating content that has a tactile dimension when presented on a tactile-enabled device.

    Automated saliency map estimation
    94.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10198654B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15192551

    申请日:2016-06-24

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method are provided for automated estimation of a saliency map for an image based on a graph structure comprising nodes corresponding to respective superpixels on the image, the graph structure including boundary-connecting nodes that connects each non-boundary node to one or more boundary regions. Each non-boundary node is in some embodiments connected to all boundary nodes by respective boundary-connecting edges forming part of the graph. Edge weights are calculated to generate a weighted graph. Saliency map estimation comprises bringing respective nodes for similarity to a background query. The edge weights of at least some of the edges are in some embodiments calculated as a function of a geodesic distance or shortest path between the corresponding nodes.

    Re-ranking item recommendations based on image feature data

    公开(公告)号:US10185899B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-22

    申请号:US14936052

    申请日:2015-11-09

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: An apparatus and method to adjust item recommendations are disclosed herein. A first image attribute of a query image is compared to a second image attribute of each of a plurality of inventory images of a plurality of inventory items to identify the inventory items similar to the query image. Item recommendations comprising the identified inventory items in a first listing order are provided for display at a remote device. A second listing order of the identified inventory items is determined based on a user preference for a particular one of the identified inventory items. At least the second listing order is provided to the remote device for re-display of the item recommendations in accordance with the second listing order.

    Document optical character recognition

    公开(公告)号:US10068132B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-04

    申请号:US15164594

    申请日:2016-05-25

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.

    PROJECTING VISUAL ASPECTS INTO A VECTOR SPACE

    公开(公告)号:US20180137142A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-17

    申请号:US15353900

    申请日:2016-11-17

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for projecting visual aspects into a vector space are presented. A query that includes visual data is received by the system from a client device. A visual aspect indicated in the visual data is analyzed. One or more symbols that correspond to the analyzed visual aspect is generated by the system. The analyzed visual aspect is projected into a vector space using the one or more symbols. A group of projections are identified, the group of projections being within a predetermined distance from the projected visual aspect in the vector space. An interface that depicts the further visual aspects is generated. The interface is displayed on the client device.

    DETECTING CROSS-LINGUAL COMPARABLE LISTINGS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION USING IMAGE SIMILARITY

    公开(公告)号:US20180075508A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:US15264873

    申请日:2016-09-14

    Applicant: eBay Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06Q30/0623 G06F17/289 G06F17/30244

    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for a Listing Engine that translates a first listing from a first language to a second language. The first listing includes an image(s) of a first item. The Listing Engine provides as input to an encoded neural network model a portion(s) of a translated first listing and a portions(s) of a second listing in the second language. The second listing includes an image(s) of a second item. The Listing Engine receives from the encoded neural network model a first feature vector for the translated first listing and a second feature vector for the second listing. The first and the second feature vectors both include at least one type of image signature feature and at least one type of listing text-based feature. Based on a similarity score of the first and second feature vectors at least meeting a similarity score threshold, the Listing Engine generates a pairing of the first listing in the first language with the second listing in the second language for inclusion in training data of a machine translation system.

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