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This Week: Web Summit 2024 In Lisbon
Join Kalev at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon this week, which is drawing more than 70,000 attendees from over 160…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: More Grid Layout Experiments
As we ramp up our work to expand OCR to the complete Internet Archive Television News Archive, the key to…
Comparing The New Visual Explorer Intelligent Thumbnail Generator Vs The Old Fixed Thumbnails
The current Visual Explorer represents each television news broadcast using a single frame extracted exactly 60 seconds into the broadcast….
The Fascinating Findings Of Applying Advanced OCR To Television News: Transcribing Projected Text
As we continue ramping up our experiments applying GCP's Cloud Vision API OCR to television news, it never ceases to…
Next Week: Web Summit 2024 In Lisbon
Join Kalev at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon next week, which is drawing more than 70,000 attendees from over 160…
Can LMM's Like ChatGPT 4o And Gemini Yield Better Results Than Cloud Vision's Classical AI OCR?
Yesterday we explored the challenges of OCR'ing television news, in which a single change to one portion of an image…
An OCR Tale Of Two Images: The Impact Of Small Changes On OCR Block Reconstruction
Classical production OCR systems work by recognizing text in an image and grouping sequences of related characters and words into…
AFP Fact Check: Fabricated CNN Election Broadcast Spreads Online, Sparking False Cheating Claims
The AFP's Fact Check relies on the Internet Archive's TV News Archive to debunk a falsified purported screen grab from…
Two Weeks: Web Summit 2024 In Lisbon
Join Kalev at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon in two weeks, which is drawing more than 70,000 attendees from over…
This Week Coverage Of The US Elections Has Turned Dark
A fascinating analysis by Richard Addy and Luba Kassova and their AKAS US Election Media Tracker examining the shift in…
"Climate Change" Mentions On US 24/7 TV News Have Halved In The 2024 US Election Campaign Compared To 2020
A new analysis by the AKAS US Election Media Tracker examines coverage of climate change compared with the previous presidential…
September 11th Fades On Television News & Web Searches
As the timeline below shows, mentions of 9/11 across television news from 2009 to present declined sharply from 2014 and…
Mentions Of "Felon" On TV News Peaked In May And Never Rebounded
As the timeline below shows, mentions of "felon" peaked this past May, but the term has never rebounded, even in…
OCR'ing Television News: Experiments With EasyOCR
Two months ago we evaluated the OCR performance of several models applied to television news frames, including dedicated SOTA OCR…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based Video OCR Speed & Costs: Part 8 – Cost Comparisons
Looking back at the lessons we've learned over the past week optimizing the speed and cost of video OCR, why…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 7 – What Have We Learned So Far?
What have we learned so far from our six-part series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5,…
Fortune: How The Democrat-Leaning News Media Is Unwittingly Aiding Trump
Luba Kassova and Richard Addy examine television media coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. Read The Full Article.
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 6 – Further Grid Layout Experiments
Yesterday's experiments on how montage layouts impact OCR accuracy suggested that there were few differences between vertical, horizontal and grid-based…
Independent: No, Young Black Men Aren't To Blame If Trump Wins The Election
A fascinating analysis of the 2024 US presidential election by Richard Addy and Luba Kassova. Read The Full Article.
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 5 – The Impact Of Grid Layout
Continuing our OCR experiments, how much of an impact does the layout of the montage grid have on OCR performance?…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 4
Continuing our experiments with optimizing video OCR costs, what impact does image resolution have on OCR accuracy? Assuming we are…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 3
Continuing our experiments in using montages to optimize OCR speed and cost for the TV News Archive, what might it…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 2
Continuing yesterday's experiments, what if we boost the resolution of the surrogate thumbnail images from 200×200 pixels to 500×500 pixels…
Lessons From The Trenches: How OCR Text Search Beat Out Visual Search For Television News
Just over six and a half years ago, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we launched the…