10. A retail store promotional price tag (PPT) detection and classification system comprising: a store shelf image acquisition model configured to acquire images from a plurality of image capture devices of a plurality of product display units located in a retail store, the plurality of product display units including a plurality of products arranged on one or more of the product display fixtures, and a plurality of printed PPTs attached to the product display fixtures, each PPT including product-related data including a barcode associated with a respective product proximately located on the product display fixture near the PPT; a device characterization module configured to generate one or more spatial profiles associated with transforming the acquired images to compensate for distortions associated with each image capture device and alignment of the acquired images; an image stitching module configured to access the one or more spatial profiles and stitch the acquired images to generate a panorama image; a PPT detection and classifier module configured to extract one or more heuristic attributes from the panorama image and apply one or more predefined heuristic rules to the heuristic attributes to detect and classify each PPT detected as one of a plurality of PPT types; a mobile base including an operatively associated navigation component configured to determine a location of the mobile base within the retail store; an image capture assembly mounted on the mobile base, the assembly including the plurality of image capture devices for acquiring the images of the plurality of product display units; and a master control unit configured to execute control unit instructions for processing the images of the plurality of product display units at a sequence of locations during a movement of the mobile base in the retail store and thereafter generating a store profile indicating locations of the products and/or PPTs throughout the retail store.
10. A retail store promotional price tag (PPT) detection and classification system comprising: a store shelf image acquisition model configured to acquire images from a plurality of image capture devices of a plurality of product display units located in a retail store, the plurality of product display units including a plurality of products arranged on one or more of the product display fixtures, and a plurality of printed PPTs attached to the product display fixtures, each PPT including product-related data including a barcode associated with a respective product proximately located on the product display fixture near the PPT; a device characterization module configured to generate one or more spatial profiles associated with transforming the acquired images to compensate for distortions associated with each image capture device and alignment of the acquired images; an image stitching module configured to access the one or more spatial profiles and stitch the acquired images to generate a panorama image; a PPT detection and classifier module configured to extract one or more heuristic attributes from the panorama image and apply one or more predefined heuristic rules to the heuristic attributes to detect and classify each PPT detected as one of a plurality of PPT types; a mobile base including an operatively associated navigation component configured to determine a location of the mobile base within the retail store; an image capture assembly mounted on the mobile base, the assembly including the plurality of image capture devices for acquiring the images of the plurality of product display units; and a master control unit configured to execute control unit instructions for processing the images of the plurality of product display units at a sequence of locations during a movement of the mobile base in the retail store and thereafter generating a store profile indicating locations of the products and/or PPTs throughout the retail store. 18. The retail store profile PPT detection and classification system according to claim 10 , wherein the device characterization module is further configured to generate one or more color profiles associated with transforming a plurality of colors associated with the acquired images of the printed PPTs from an image acquisition color space to an original color space associated with a digital representation of the PPTs.