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So, this is totally doable right now. The resolution and frame rates are there, AI being able to look at individual items on a screen and figure out what’s in the picture is already a mostly solved problem. It would probably make the most sense to turn the space into a 3D representation so you don’t accidentally double catch an item from a parallax error. It might not be able to tell the day TV is a frame versus a q LED, but it’ll be able to tell that it’s a 75-in TV and they can probably assign an average price to it.

The hard part is the horsepower required to do the AI work. It would need to be trained on pictures and sizes everything and of the things that are too complicated it would prompt you for what this item actually is. Lots of CPU, lots of GPU and would most likely need to head off to a beefy server farm where would need to spend a non-trivial amount of time sorting your stuff out.

Of course the real loser in all this is your insurance company. The less stuff you have on your inventory less stuff they pay out. To convince them too create the training data and host or pay for hosting the engines, There would have to be some clear advantage in it for them.

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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The hard part is the horsepower

The hard part is dealing with the numerous errors. Things that were accidentally not visible at that moment, that bottle with the label turned the other way etc.

Try and convince your bookkeeping department why your new and fancy inventory is only 93% complete when they are asking for 100% completeness and accuracy, like they have done the last 100 years :-)

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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Volumetric likeness would make it pretty easy too generate a report of likely false positives., 3D spacial pictures of each individual item detected. 3D special pictures of items not detected.
  
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  - NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Volumetric likeness
    
    Let me guess: you are not living in a country where 99.5% of all beer bottles of all brands look the same (except the label) :-)
    
    In addition, you seem to understand the term ‘inventory’ in a very different way…
    
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    linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Tell me, did you miss OP’s actual post “This could be similar to a home inventory app where users only need to capture video and move around the house instead of taking pictures and labeling items. When do you think will there be an Android app for real-time visual inventory?”
    
    Or are you just moving the goal posts to insult me?
    
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