Enhancing Retail Operations and Customer Insights through Advanced Analytics: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating AI-Powered Object Detection, Tracking, and Demand Forecasting

An innovative smart retail analytics system (SRAS) that leverages cutting-edge machine learning technologies, including YOLO-V8 for accurate customer detection and BOT-SORT for advanced object tracking, combined with a GRU-based demand forecasting model, to revolutionize retail operations and enhance the customer experience.