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These limited-edition sneakers are typically released in low quantities using an online raffle system, meaning only a few people can get their hands on them. As expected, this causes their value to skyrocket and has created an extremely lucrative resale market for sneakers. This has given rise to numerous counterfeit sneakers flooding the resale market, resulting in online platforms having to hand-verify a sneaker\u2019s authenticity, which is an important but time-consuming procedure that slows the selling and buying process. To speed up the authentication process, Support Vector Machines and a convolutional neural network were used to classify images of fake and real sneakers and then their accuracies were compared to see which performed better. The results showed that the CNNs performed much better at this task than the SVMs with some accuracies over 95%. 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