Abstract: A method for automatically constructing a planogram from photographs of shelving, replacing laborious manual construction includes the following steps: a step (1) in which the images are received, a step (2) in which the images are assembled, a step (3) in which the structure is automatically constructed, a step (4) in which the products are automatically detected, and a step (5) in which the products are positioned in the structure. The product detection step (4) enhances traditional image recognition techniques, using artificial learning techniques to incorporate characteristics specific to the planograms. This product detection step (4) also includes at least two successive classification steps, namely: an initialization step (41) with detection of product categories; and a classification step (42) with the classification of the products themselves, each of these steps including a first image recognition step, followed by a statistical filtering step based on the characteristics specific to the planograms.

Abstract: A method for automatically constructing a planogram from photographs of shelving, replacing laborious manual construction includes the following steps: a step (1) in which the images are received, a step (2) in which the images are assembled, a step (3) in which the structure is automatically constructed, a step (4) in which the products are automatically detected, and a step (5) in which the products are positioned in the structure. The product detection step (4) enhances traditional image recognition techniques, using artificial learning techniques to incorporate characteristics specific to the planograms. This product detection step (4) also includes at least two successive classification steps, namely: an initialization step (41) with detection of product categories; and a classification step (42) with the classification of the products themselves, each of these steps including a first image recognition step, followed by a statistical filtering step based on the characteristics specific to the planograms.

Abstract: Method for assigning an assortment of products to an existing planogram includes: providing an existing planogram which includes an existing assortment of products in association with a geometrical placement layout of these products on shelves and storing the existing planogram in memory; providing a user-defined new assortment of products and storing the new assortment in memory; furnishing, by a processor having read/write access to the memory, an output planogram by removing, from the output planogram, products in the existing assortment but not in the new assortment and adding, to the output planogram, products in the new assortment but not in the existing assortment; storing the output planogram in memory. The method further includes: generating a set of at least one segmentation tree which describes the relative geometrical placement of products in the existing planogram according to several ordered category types, each type corresponding to a level of the segmentation tree.