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A content-based goods image recommendation system

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The information of e-commerce images varies and different users may focus on different contents of the same image for different purpose. So the research on recommendation by computers is becoming more and more important. But retrieval based only on keywords obviously falls short for massive numbers of resource images. In this paper, we focus on a recommendation system of goods images based on image content. Goods images have a relatively homogenous background and have a wide range of applications. The recommendation consists of three stages. First, the image is pre-processed by removing the background. Second, a weighted representation model is proposed to represent the image. The separated features are extracted and normalized, and then the weights of each feature are computed based on the samples browsed by the users. Third, a feature indexing scheme is put forward based on the proposed representation. A binary-tree is used for the indexing, and a binary-tree updating algorithm is also given. Finally, the recommended images are given by a features combination searching scheme. Experimental results on a real goods image database show that our algorithm can achieve high accuracy in recommending similar goods images with high speed.

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    Li Yu, Fangjian Han, Shaobing Huang & Yiwen Luo

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Yu, L., Han, F., Huang, S. et al. A content-based goods image recommendation system. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 4155–4169 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4542-z

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