Anatoly Kotlarsky, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in R&D at Zebra Technologies, talks with Phil Lapsley, Co-Founder and Vice President of BDTI and Vice President of Business Development at the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, for the “Embedded Vision Opportunities and Challenges in Retail Checkout” interview at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this interview, Kotlarsky discusses computer vision challenges and opportunities in grocery stores and other retail environments, especially in traditional checkout and self-checkout applications. He highlights key challenges that have inhibited the use of computer vision, including performance, accuracy, cost, ergonomics, power consumption and the use of plastic produce bags.
Kotlarsky explains some of the approaches that are used to address these challenges, discusses edge-vs.-cloud trade-offs and provides insights for technology suppliers on what they can do to help make computer vision ubiquitous in these applications.
