Patent attributes
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for catalog item selection based on visual similarity are disclosed. A similarity detection system selects candidate items for an unavailable item in a catalog. The candidate items are selected from one or more item categories in which the unavailable item is classified. The system determines respective similarity scores for at least some of the candidate items with respect to the unavailable item. For a particular candidate item, the similarity score is determined based at least in part on a visual similarity between an image of the unavailable item and an image of the particular candidate item. The system selects, from the candidate items, a set of visually similar items to the unavailable item based at least in part on the similarity scores. The visually similar items are available to the user.
