Yupoo Picture Manager serves tens of millions of users and manages tens of billions of pictures. As its user gallery is growing larger, Yupoo has an urgent business need for a solution that can quickly locate the image. In other words, when a user inputs an image, the system should find its original image and similar images in the gallery. The development of the search by image service provides an effective approach to this problem.
The search by image service has undergone two evolutions:
Established in 2018, the Machine Intelligence Technology Laboratory comprises of a group of outstanding scientists and engineers, with research centers located in Hangzhou, Beijing, Seattle, Silicon Valley, and Singapore. Machine Intelligence Technology Laboratory is Alibaba’s core team responsible for the research and development of artificial intelligence technologies. Relying on Alibaba’s valuable massive data and machine learning/deep learning technologies, the lab has developed image recognition, speech interaction, natural language understanding, intelligent decision-making, and other core artificial intelligence technologies. It fully empowers Alibaba Group’s important businesses such as e-commerce, finance, logistics, social interaction, and entertainment, and also provides outputs to ecosystem partners to jointly build a smart future.
