Retail & E-commerce
Powering visual search for a retail catalog
The challenge
A retail-tech platform needed 500,000+ product images annotated and categorized to launch a visual search feature. Their in-house attempt stalled at 60% taxonomy accuracy — too low for search results customers would trust — and their engineering team was spending more time fixing labels than training models.
What we did
Vidyut Data ran a two-week calibration pilot to lock the taxonomy decisions, then scaled a trained team across the full catalog — bounding boxes on products, attribute extraction (color, pattern, material), and mapping to a 1,400-node category tree. Weekly accuracy reports against gold-standard samples kept quality visible throughout, with a consensus-review tier on the categories that drove the most search traffic.
Results
- ✓500,000+ images annotated in 10 weeks
- ✓Category accuracy raised from 60% to 97%
- ✓Visual search shipped on schedule
- ✓Ongoing weekly pipeline for new additions
“They fixed in ten weeks what we'd struggled with for six months — and the weekly accuracy reports meant we never had to wonder about quality.”