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Azure AI milestone: New foundation model Florence v1.0 advances state of the art, topping popular computer vision leaderboards
| Project Florence Team
The Project Florence Team Florence v1.0—along with recent milestones in Neural Text-to-Speech and question answering—is part of a larger Azure AI mission to provide relevant, meaningful AI solutions and services that work better for people because they better capture how…
In the news | Engadget
Microsoft says its AI can describe images ‘as well as people do’
It’s a new milestone for AI that could genuinely help the visually impaired. Describing an image accurately, and not just like a clueless robot, has long been the goal of AI.
In the news | Azure TechCommunity Blog
Apps can now narrate what they see in the world as well as people do
How would you leverage technology capable of generating natural language image descriptions that are, in many cases, just as good or better than what a human could produce? What if that capability is just one cloud API call away? Would…
In the news | The AI Blog
What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do
Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write. The breakthrough in a benchmark challenge is a milestone in Microsoft’s push to make…
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s new image-captioning AI will help accessibility in Word, Outlook, and beyond
Microsoft has developed a new image-captioning algorithm that exceeds human accuracy in certain limited tests. The AI system has been used to update the company’s assistant app for the visually impaired, Seeing AI, and will soon be incorporated into other…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service, which is available as part of Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision,…