I was telling a friend who’d never seen these about them, and we were speculating how they work. Initially we guessed scanners on all sides that could read barcodes, but we realized barcodes counter-side down couldn’t be read. So then we assumed cameras, but wondered if it was AI guessing, or if every item a Circle K sells has a 3D scan in its database to identify it.
As far as I’m concerned it’s super cool witchcraft, but we’re looking for a definitive answer. All I could find on online was people complaining about it, or articles all using the same verbage and calling it “computer vision”.
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The self checkouts are like the other commenter noted are mashgins. They use an array of cameras at different angles against a plotted background to use machine learning of pattern recognition to identify product. They do struggle with similar shapes so they also use special qr codes to help the unit. Source: installer for these things
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