Tuesday, January 07, 2014

How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View | MIT Technology Review

98% accurate so far, on street numbers
"Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that’s just as good as human operators. Now its engineers reveal how they developed it. [...]
The big question of course is what’s next. And Goodfellow and co oblige by opening the kimono just a fraction: “This approach of using a single neural network as an entire end-to-end system could be applicable to other problems such as general text transcription or speech recognition.”"
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View | MIT Technology Review

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