Visual Discovery at Pinterest

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.04680
• Publication Date: 2017-01-01
• Authors: Andrew Zhai; Dmitry Kislyuk; Yushi Jing; Michael Feng; Eric Tzeng; Jeff Donahue; Yue Li Du; Trevor Darrell
• Keywords: Visual Search

Over the past three years Pinterest has experimented with several visual search and recommendation services, including Related Pins (2014), Similar Looks (2015), Flashlight (2016) Lens (2017). This paper presents an overview of our discovery engine powering these shares rationales behind technical product decisions such as use object detection interactive user interfaces. We conclude that this significantly improves engagement in both tasks.