US Patent 9779444 Recommendations utilizing visual image analysis

Disclosed are various embodiments for generating recommendations utilizing visual image analysis, for example, by inserting a representative image of an item in an empty region of a digital image. Representative images for an item may be determined by generating a score for each potential image for insertion into the digital image, where a representative image is selected having a highest score from the ranking. The representative image selected may be pre-processed such that the image appears naturally in the setting.