Amazon Look
At Amazon, I got the opportunity to bring a smart closet experiment from a data science POC to a hardware camera and a feature in the Amazon Shopping app.
Client
Amazon
Service
MLOps, Experiment Management, Dataset Training
Date
February 1, 2017
Challenge
Groundbreaking research into automated fashion classification with state-of-the-art segmentation and an entirely new way to annotate the dataset.
Solution
Support multiple data scientists working on computer vision and NLP with a uniquely challenging annotation specialists and platform.
I collected a dataset, sent it throw a first round of annotators for basic filtering, then ran multiple experiments with different subsets of specialist annotators across multiple regions.
A large emphasis was given on the convergence of the human annotators, the speed at which they received feedback, and the progress monitoring.
I worked with multiple data scientists, annotators and management to provide progress reporting, experiment management and tooling.
The hardware camera had a limited run, but the Amazon Shopping outfit compare plugin was very positively received and was available worldwide.