Sumedh
Datar
ML Lead, R&D Senior Software Engineer
7-Eleven
Sumedh is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with unique experience working at the intersection of engineering, research and product. He has a proven track record of applying learning based algorithms to real world business problems and created huge impact to business, and immense expertise in solving computer vision problems with almost no data to minimum data. Sumedh has recently been involved with teams that started on an idea level (almost 0) to finally building a full fledged product used by thousands of customers. In the past two years, he has been an integral part of the algorithms team that opened the first cashierless store, helping to develop and deploy the first computer vision based self checkout system.
17 April 2024 14:45 - 15:15
Computer vision in retail convenience: unleashing the power of recognition
Computer Vision has immense applications in retail space. With the popularity and impact of deep learning a lot of problems in retail can be solved can be solved with computer vision. Most solutions in this space require domain-specific data to provide a great customer experience. In this talk, Sumedh will focus on the types of challenges faced while building computer vision applications including research and software engineering problems, such scalability. Sumedh will also talk about the algorithms and concepts that he has applied to solve the problems that impacted end-users who use the solution.