Clearly there’s room for improvement, then, but it’s evident that image recognition is improving apace. And, perhaps unsurprisingly given Google’s involved, the natural application is in search.

The researchers evaluated TextTubes’ performance on CTW-1500, a data set consisting of 1,500 images collected from natural scenes and image libraries and over 10,000 text instances with at least ...

On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ ...