Product Search legacy category migration

The legacy categories "apparel", "homegoods", and "toys" have been upgraded. See the December 5, 2022 release note for more information.

Product Search legacy category migration

In 90 days, the legacy categories "apparel", "homegoods", and "toys" will be upgraded. You will still be able to use these categories. However, when running searches, they will perform similar to the "apparel-v2", "homegoods-v2", and "toys-v2" categories.

Packaged goods and general vertical:

The following product categories have been updated or added for General Availability:

• packagedgoods-v1 (updated)
• general-v1 (added)

Feature

Batch deletion

Batch deletion is now offered for the following product types:

• All products in a specific product set
• All products not in any product set

See the "Deleting resources" topic for more information.

Change

Model update: The Object Localizer model has been updated.

Change

Responses to images:annotate requests now include an objectAnnotation field with a label for the object defined by the bounding box indicated. See the "Searching for products" topic for more information.

Change

VPC Service Controls

Vision Product Search VPC Service Controls provide additional security for your pipeline's resources and services. To learn more about VPC Service Controls, see the VPC Service Controls overview.

To learn about the limitations of using Vision Product Search with VPC Service Controls, see the supported products and limitations.

Packaged goods vertical: Adds support for a packagedgoods-v1 product category in addition to other supported product categories.

Change

The following product categories have been updated:

• homegoods-v2
• apparel-v2
• toys-v2

The corresponding legacy categories (homegoods, apparel, and toys) are still supported, but the updated categories should be used for new products.

Cloud Vision API Product Search General Availability (GA) Release

Feature

Toys vertical: Adds support for a toys product category in addition to other supported product categories.

Feature

Multi-detection: Detects multiple products in an image, and then provides similar products to each product found.

Beta Release of Vision Product Search

The Beta version of Vision Product Search is now available.