Automated baked-goods identification computer vision system

A Japanese point-of-sale system has the native cunning to recognize baked goods of its own accord, a surprisingly tricky computer vision problem:

Brain Corporation has developed a system that can individually identify all kinds of baked goods on a tray, in just one second. A trial has started at a Tokyo bakery store.
This technology was co-developed with the University of Hyogo. This is the world's first trial of such a system in actual work at a cash register.

Bakery goods POS visual recognition system on trial in Tokyo bakery (via DVICE)

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Our new system does not allow innovation. Now go away.
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Baked employees worldwide can relax as their baked goods sales slip ups are corrected by the miracles of rainbows and technology.
Warren_Terra

Would anyone like any toast?
PhosPhorious

But can it tell the difference between an english muffin and a crumpet? Do that, and I’ll be impressed.
kP

Do this with produce – I F___ING HATE those little stickers, especially when the underlying skin comes off with them.
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D’OH!
Boundegar

Will the meat people not stop before Skynet is born?
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I, for one, welcome our new pastry-recognizing robot overlords
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Finally the help that our overworked, underpaid TSA agents have been waiting for. No more foreign brioches or tarts slipping through the net undetected. I feel much safer already.