E-commerce assistant application incorporating machine learning image classification

The rise of mobile applications has helped to provide information in a broader network of products remotely. They simplify the identification of products by using their barcode or even an image of the item. This paper, therefore, aims to create an e-commerce assistant Android application that incorporates machine learning, more precisely, image classification, to assist potentially disadvantaged people on a tight budget in looking to save money. This is achieved by collecting an image dataset of essential products, training a machine learning model, and applying it to the developed application. Although the proposed solution appears to be useful and consistent with all the defined goals, the available datasets are currently insufficient, taking into account both their size and quality of individual images, which negatively affect the machine learning model and limit the potential of the solution being developed. We concluded that our final product succeeds in serving the basic functionality of the app's requirements. In the future, we will reach a wider network of users and investigate their needs, then develop these functions into the application. 2 V. Chang et al.