The amount of image data has been rising exponentially over the last decades due to numerous trends like social networks, smartphones, automotive, biology, medicine and robotics. Traditionally, file systems are used as storage. Although they are easy to use and can handle large data volumes, they are suboptimal for efficient sequential image processing due to the limitation of data organisation...

This study investigates two design factors of store atmosphere in relation to store image and consumers’ expectations of merchandise quality for web-based stores. We address this purpose through the use of the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S–O–R) model on which five hypotheses were drawn based on research conducted with brick-and-mortar and web-based stores. In order to test the hypotheses, four ...

Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this working paper are the responsibility of the author alone. Introduction It has been highlighted that market positioning-based on a combination of price and product differentiation-can provide an important competitive advantage for commercial organisations (e.g. Day and Wensley, 1988). This is especially so within retailing, where effective positioning ca...

Recent work on the internationalisation of retailing has focused on a number of themes such as the motives for internationalisation, the geographical flows of investment, the impact of internationalisation upon host environments, and methods and typologies of investment. Less attention has been paid to the process of internationalisation per se. This paper argues that for many retailers, compet...

The arrangement of products in store shelves is carefully planned to maximize sales and keep customers happy. However, verifying compliance of real shelves to the ideal layout is a costly task routinely performed by the store personnel. In this paper, we propose a computer vision pipeline to recognize products on shelves and verify compliance to the planned layout. We deploy local invariant fea...

online stores are dramatically increasing and becoming popular, in a way that enterprisers invest tremendous resource and effort to meet customer requirements. however, the failure rate resulting from improper operation has been increasing year by year. by investigating the main cause, the operators cannot grasp the online store websites’ industry type and attribute category. therefore, they fa...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect visual merchandising store image and purchase intention through importance factors such as front entrance product display, displays, layout organization, theme, signage/graphic, lighting sound usage. This also looked at effects on intention. Ikea Alam Sutera Indonesia used a research object because in store, elements are designed detail create ...