Solutions: AI Workflows

Retail Loss Prevention

Build scalable solutions for autonomous shopping and  prevent shrinkage at the point of sale.

The Loss Prevention Challenge

Retail product shrinkage is a $100B per year challenge, with over 65% of shrinkage—and growing—due to theft. With NVIDIA’s retail loss prevention AI workflow, you can quickly build and deploy applications designed to prevent theft. Leveraging the NVIDIA Metropolis microservices and models pretrained on hundreds of the most-frequently stolen goods, this AI workflow provides few-shot, active learning to quickly scale to recognize hundreds of thousands of products, and provide intelligent alerts with actionable information.

Explore the Retail Loss Prevention AI Workflow

Built on cloud-native NVIDIA Metropolis microservices—a low-or no-code way to build AI applications—this AI workflow for retail loss prevention and frictionless shopping delivers pretrained AI models along with the applications needed to jump-start development, rapidly index hundreds of thousands of store products for cross-camera and barcode-scan identification.

The workflow contains:

  • Pretrained models for retail product recognition.
  • Similarity search for accurate and fast retrieval.
  •  Few-shot learning for ease of expansion to hundreds of thousands of products and their variants.
  • A reference solution for deploying in production, including barcode scanner comparison.
  • Guidance on how to train and customize the solution for a specific use case.

The AI models in this workflow are pretrained to recognize hundreds of products most frequently lost to theft—including meat, alcohol, and laundry detergent—and to identify them in varying sizes and shapes. With synthetic data generation from NVIDIA Omniverse, retailers and independent software vendors can customize and further train the models to cover hundreds of thousands of store products. The workflow is based on a state-of-the-art, few-shot learning technique developed by NVIDIA Research which, combined with active learning, identifies and captures any new products scanned by customers and sales associates during checkout to ultimately improve model accuracy.

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Key Benefits of the Retail Loss Prevention AI Workflow

Pretrained Models

The AI models in this workflow are pretrained to recognize hundreds of products most frequently lost to theft—including meat, alcohol, and laundry detergent—and to identify them in varying sizes and shapes.

Few-Shot Active Learning

The workflow features a state-of-the-art variation of few-shot learning designed to adapt continuously with limited new product data using object characterization and self-supervised learning algorithms. This unique method of active learning identifies and captures new products and packaging changes scanned during checkout for future recognition through similarity search.

Flexible Reference Architecture

Delivered through cloud native microservices, this AI workflow allows users to jump-start development, easily customize for their solution, rapidly index hundreds of thousands of store products for cross-camera and barcode-scan identification, and enable scalable production deployment.

 

Accelerate the Development of AI Solutions

AI workflows accelerate the path to AI outcomes. This AI workflow provides a reference for developers to rapidly start creating a flexible and scalable loss prevention solution.

Reduce Development Time

Best-in-class AI software streamlines development and deployment of AI solutions.

Improve Accuracy And Performance

Frameworks and containers are performance-tuned and tested for NVIDIA GPUs.

Speed Time to Deployment

Prepackaged, customizable reference applications with cloud-native, deployable packaging.

Gain Confidence in AI Outcomes

Scale business-critical AI projects to production across stores.

Learn More About AI-Based Workflows for Retail

The $100B Retail Problem

Read more about how NVIDIA is helping the retail industry tackle its $100 billion annual shrinkage problem.

Read the Technical Blog

Learn more about how the retail AI workflows address highly complex application development challenges and provide the initial building blocks necessary for an effective solution.

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