WAB'21: 1st Workshop on Multimodal Product Identification in Livestreaming and WAB Challenge

Product identification has become a very important component in the modern E-commerce shopping system. Consumers could enjoy watching livingstreaming and buying products that livestream hosts recommended. However, with hundreds of products presented in a livingstreaming video, finding the specific product could be laboursome for consumers. Hence, automatic product identification is desired in livingstreaming based E-commerce system. Compared with the image-based visual searching system, the complicated contents in the livestreaming videos make the identification even more challenging. To promote the research on product identification in livestreaming, we present the largest multimodal product retrieval dataset named "Watch and Buy" (WAB) and launch the multimodal product retrieval challenge. We hope this workshop could help researchers further advance the performance and applicability of livestreaming product identification in real-world systems.