Systems and methods for building image databases to facilitate computer vision-based consumer product identification

A method of facilitating computer-vision-based identification of consumer products, the method comprising:

• providing a support surface for supporting thereon at least one consumer product to be identified;
• providing a plurality of digital cameras each arranged at a different height relative to the support surface and positioned such that a field of view of each of the digital cameras includes the at least one consumer product located on the support surface;
• causing movement of at least one of the support surface and the plurality of the digital cameras relative to each other to permit the digital cameras to capture images of the at least one consumer product along at least a 180 degree turn around the at least one consumer product;
• providing an electronic database configured to store electronic data including:
• image data associated with the images of the at least one consumer product captured by the plurality of the digital cameras;
• and
• identifier data associated with the at least one consumer product;
• and
• providing a computing device in communication with at least one of the digital cameras and the electronic database the computing device including a control circuit;
• by the control circuit:
• obtaining the image data and the identifier data from the electronic database;
• and
• using the image data and the consumer product identifier data obtained by the computing device from the electronic database, train a computer vision consumer product identification model to generate a reference image data model for recognition of the at least one consumer product from a plurality of viewing angles when the at least one consumer product is located on a shelf of a consumer product storage unit.