Improved product identification method using CNN for mixed-reality web shopping system

E-commerce (EC) sites have become quite popular for online shopping. However, a user of an EC site must possess certain skills to search for his/her desired product from the numerous web pages. A mixed-reality web-shopping system with panoramic views mitigates this problem. The users of this system can shop in the same manner as they do in a real shop, by viewing the panoramic photographs taken inside the shop. However, one problem with this system is the detection of a product selected in the panoramic view by the user. Although we proposed a product identification system using convolutional neural networks (CNN), its performance was not satisfactory. In this research, we propose a method to improve the recognition rate of the CNN.