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Visual recognition systems are typically trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories in a specific domain, which limits their usability in real-world applications. How to build a model that generalizes to various concepts and domains with minimal…
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…
A holistic representation toward integrative AI
| Xuedong Huang
At Microsoft, we have been on a quest to advance AI beyond existing techniques, by taking a more holistic, human-centric approach to learning and understanding. As Chief Technology Officer of Azure AI Cognitive Services, I have been working with a…
Novel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks
| Kevin Lin, Xiaowei Hu, et Lijuan Wang
Consider for a moment what it takes to visually identify and describe something to another person. Now imagine that the other person can’t see the object or image, so every detail matters. How do you decide what information is important…
Dans l’actualité | 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.
Dans l’actualité | 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…
Dans l’actualité | 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…
Dans l’actualité | 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…
Dans l’actualité | 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,…