Image quality assessment to merchandise an item

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• receiving an image that has a visual characteristic quantifiable by an analysis of the image;
• performing the analysis of the image based on a pixel count of the image;
• determining a score that quantifies the visual characteristic, the determining of the score being based on the analysis of the image;
• determining the shape of an item depicted in the image by segmenting the image;
• accessing a database that correlates the shape of the item with a stored description of the item;
• and
• providing a suggestion to an uploader of the image that the received image be replaced with an alternative image stored by the machine, the alternative image scoring higher than the determined score of the received image, the received image and the alternative image both depicting a same subject, the suggestion being provided based on the determined score of the received image and including the stored description of the item.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors, and a memory including instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive an image that has a visual characteristic quantifiable by an analysis of the image;
• perform the analysis of the image based on a pixel count of the image;
• determine a score that quantifies the visual characteristic, the determining of the score being based on the analysis of the image;
• determine the shape of an item depicted in the image by segmenting the image;
• access a database that correlates the shape of the item with a stored description of the item;
• and
• provide a suggestion to an uploader of the image that the received image be replaced with an alternative image stored by the machine, the alternative image scoring higher than the determined score of the received image, the received image and the alternative image both depicting a same subject, the suggestion being provided based on the determined score of the received image and include the stored description of the item.