Google Street View is brilliant . It find us when we ’re lost , it shows us where we are , it reveals place we ’ll never get to jaw , and so on and so forth . But you know what ’s even more amazing ? The crazy neural web that Street View is built on .
Take , for example , the brain-teaser of house numbers in panoramic images , like the unity Street View shows you . There century of millions of street number in a single land alone — so finding and key each bit in Street View would be a sisyphean chore . Instead , Google engineers build a “ deep convolutional neural connection ” that operates on the pixels of the images themselves , combing them for number imagery and log what it finds .
This neuronal internet — whichyou can read about here , basically it ’s a computing mesh modeled on creature neural systems — has eleven layers of neuron , which makes it possible to ID millions of house numbers a day from the Street View new image information . “ We can , for example , transcribe all the prospect we have of street numbers in France in less than an 60 minutes using our Google substructure , ” write the applied scientist ina new Arxiv paper about the project .
What about the number that are too blurry for this giant brain to make sense of ? No prob — those are identified by humans as part of asecond generation CAPTCHA program . So you may have already lead to the grounds , without even realize it . [ Arxiv;MIT Technology Review ]
Google Finally Puts Captchas to Good Use
Image : holdeneye / Shutterstock .
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