Generating product imagery at Shopify

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

Shopify recently released a Hugging Face space demonstrating very impressive results for replacing background scenes in product imagery. In this episode, we hear the backstory technical details about this work from Shopify’s Russ Maschmeyer. Along the way we discuss how to come up with clever AI solutions (without training your own model).

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Featuring:

• Russ Maschmeyer – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Advent of GenAI Hackathon
• Shopify’s HF Space for background replacement
• Shopify Magic

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Chapitres

1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:08)

2. Sponsor: Advent of GenAI Hackathon (00:00:35)

https://adventofgenai.com/

3. Daniel's Shopify experience (00:01:54)

4. Prepping for the shopping season (00:04:07)

5. AI and e-commerce (00:05:35)

6. Surprising AI in retail (00:07:20)

7. Retail's multi-modal uses (00:09:06)

8. Chris' new store/racoon socks/ New merchant's perspective (00:12:29)

9. Sponsor: Traceroute (00:16:37)

https://deploy.equinix.com/traceroute/

10. Product photography (00:18:15)

11. Why open source? (00:24:21)

12. Traversing the AI jungle (00:28:30)

13. Grounding generative models (00:33:27)

14. Discovering little hacks (00:42:40)

15. New technology and commerce (00:46:16)

16. Outro (00:49:29)