Item image library maintenance based on low-quality images

A system comprising:

• a fixed-position camera having a field of view;
• an item scanner disposed within the field of view;
• and
• a computing system in electronic communication with the camera and the scanner, the computing system comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a video stream from the camera;
• isolating a frame of the video stream based on a scan of an item by the scanner;
• applying object detection to the frame to identify a new item image in the frame;
• and
• determining a respective similarity of the new item image to each old image of the item in a library of old images;
• and
• adding the new item image to the library only if each respective similarity is below a similarity threshold.

A system comprising:

• a camera;
• and
• a computing system in electronic communication with the camera, the computing system comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a video stream from the camera;
• isolating a frame of the video stream based on a scan of an item by a scanner disposed in a field of view of the camera;
• applying object detection to the frame to identify a new item image in the frame;
• calculating a quality score for the new item image;
• and
• adding the new item image to a library of images of the item only if the quality score exceeds a quality threshold.