Argos rolls out visual search homewares app

Argos has tapped image search technology and machine learning to enable customers to pick out homeware items by taking a picture with their smartphone camera.

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They can use a new app to search the retailer’s catalogue of products to find the same or similar items and also place an order. The aforementioned technology is capable of recognising distinctive features of furniture.

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