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Behind The Scenes: Managing The Unpredictability Of Cloud AI API Latency At Archive Scale
While all APIs can exhibit variable response times and error rates, AI APIs demonstrate uniquely complex response behaviors. The scarcity…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2018 Congolese Broadcast – Part 2
In contrast to yesterday's Congolese television news example, in which Cloud Vision API was unable to transcribe the onscreen chyron…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2018 Congolese Broadcast
While our Cloud Vision montaging workflow has yielded highly robust results across the majority of broadcasts we've tested it on,…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2018 Nigerian Broadcast
Below is an OCR excerpt from a circa-2018 Nigerian news broadcast, with a fast-paced white textual "crawl" over a red…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2012 Venezuelan Broadcast
How does our OCR workflow perform on a circa-2012 Venezuelan broadcast? Of interest, it even captures the "Reuters" byline of…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2012 Vietnamese Broadcast
Continuing our OCR series, below is a circa-2012 Vietnamese broadcast. In keeping with the highly multilingual world of global broadcast…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2018 Amharic Broadcast – Part 2: Onscreen Documents
Continuing yesterday's examination of OCRing an Amharic-language broadcast, towards the end of that broadcast is a fascinating example of a…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2018 Amharic Broadcast – Part 1
Continuing our OCR experiments applying GCP's Cloud Vision API to global television news broadcasts using montaging, below is an excerpt…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: What Have We Learned So Far?
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are working to OCR the Archive's entire 7-million-hour quarter-century archive…
Digital Innovation Towards The Sustainable Development Goals: A Mass Media Analysis
Innovation and technology are essential to reduce the environmental impact of human activities and face the derived environmental and social…
Behind The Scenes: The Perils Of AI-Powered Autonomous Agents In The Real World
We continue to explore the landscape of AI-powered autonomous agents. Despite their immense hype and ubiquitous mediagenic demos on social…
GCP Tips & Tricks: Using The Cloud Monitoring API To Track AI API Usage In Realtime
Yesterday we discussed how we massively optimized our archive-scale OCR throughput by splitting montaging and OCR workloads. When working at the…
Behind The Scenes: Splitting Workloads: OCR Montage Generation Vs API Calls
As we continue to scale up our work OCR'ing a quarter century of global television news broadcasts, one of the…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Tunisian Broadcast
Below is an example of our Cloud Vision montage pipeline's transcription of a Tunisian broadcast from 2014, showing how it…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Turkish TRT 1 Broadcast
Continuing our Cloud Vision television news OCR montaging experiments, below is a circa-2012 example from Turkish broadcaster TRT 1, showing…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Thai Broadcast
Continuing our Cloud Vision television news OCR montaging experiments, below is a circa-2012 example of a Thai television news broadcast, showing…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Remarkable Results From A Circa-2012 320×240 Pixel Syrian Broadcast
Continuing our Cloud Vision television news OCR montaging experiments, below is a truly remarkable circa-2012 example from Syrian television. The…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Quarter-Century-Old Chinese Language Broadcast
Thus far, we've demonstrated the results of applying GCP Cloud Vision to OCR a grid montage of 1fps frames from…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2010 SD-Resolution Arabic-Language Broadcast
Earlier this week we demonstrated the results from applying GCP Cloud Vision to a grid montage of 1fps still frames…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Two Interesting Examples Of The OCR & Inconsistencies Of OCR At Scale
Earlier this week we explored the ability of GCP's Cloud Vision API to robustly OCR a grid of 224 video…
Snopes: Video Does Not Show Biden Wandering Off into Amazon Rainforest
Snopes uses the TV News Archive to verify that a clip seen on social media is authenticate, but used out…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2010 SD-Resolution English-Language Broadcast
Last week we explored how combining large numbers of video frames into a single grid-based montage allows us to vastly…
Why Large Multimodal Models (LMM) Like ChatGPT Are Unsuitable For Production OCR
While Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are increasingly positioned as replacements for the full range of classical AI systems like OCR,…
Tomorrow: Don't Inform, Inflame: AI's Limitations
For those here at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon, head to Stage 15 tomorrow to see Kalev's stage talk "Tomorrow:…