{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/arc-a-vision-based-automatic-retail-checkout","title":"ARC: A Vision-based Automatic Retail Checkout System","arxiv_id":"2104.02832","date":"2021-04-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Syed Talha Bukhari","Abdul Wahab Amin","Muhammad Abdullah Naveed","Muhammad Rzi Abbas"],"abstract":"Retail checkout systems employed at supermarkets primarily rely on barcode scanners, with some utilizing QR codes, to identify the items being purchased. These methods are time-consuming in practice, require a certain level of human supervision, and involve waiting in long queues. In this regard, we propose a system, that we call ARC, which aims at making the process of check-out at retail store counters faster, autonomous, and more convenient, while reducing dependency on a human operator. The approach makes use of a computer vision-based system, with a Convolutional Neural Network at its core, which scans objects placed beneath a webcam for identification. To evaluate the proposed system, we curated an image dataset of one-hundred local retail items of various categories. Within the given assumptions and considerations, the system achieves a reasonable test-time accuracy, pointing towards an ambitious future for the proposed setup. The project code and the dataset are made publicly available.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02832v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02832v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"arc-a-vision-based-automatic-retail-checkout","repo_url":"https://github.com/stalhabukhari/ARC","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"arc","task_name":"ARC"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"arc-100","name":"ARC-100","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}