Using Sketches to Search for Products Online

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/using-sketches-to-search-for-products-online/

Sometimes drawing a quick sketch is easier than using text to describe a particular product you have in mind. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London created a tool that recognizes hand-drawn sketches on a smartphone or tablet and uses them to search for products online. Using two Tesla K80 GPUs and the cuDNN-accelerated Caffe…