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The Influence of Media Propaganda on Green Housing Consumption in China Based on GDELT Big Data
As part of China's two-carbon strategy, green buildings are a vital component in addressing climate change.Formulating a media propaganda strategy to…
Behind The Scenes: Identifying Failed Recordings: Examining Curation Metadata
Any large longitudinal audiovisual archive will have some number of recordings that suffer from technical errors, ranging from minor audio…
Behind The Scenes: API Quotas & The Impact Of A Fraction Of A QPS
All hosted APIs have rate-limited quotas of some form to protect them from abuse and to ensure equal sharing of…
Behind The Scenes: A Look Back At A Month Of Real-World AI API Latency At Scale
Last week we examined a 24-hour period of real-world AI API latency and error rates as an illustration of the…
Behind The Scenes: GCP's Network Intelligence Performance Dashboard
The sheer massiveness of GCP's core service offerings is such that there are a wealth of hidden gems buried within…
Behind The Scenes: GCP Network Intelligence Topology Mapping Of Our OCR Cluster At Startup
GCP's Network Intelligence service offers an incredibly powerful Network Topology visualization that shows all of the various GCP services being…
Behind The Scenes: Using Our Bigtable + BigQuery + GCS Digital Twin To Queue Missing Broadcasts
Our massive new collaboration with the Internet Archive to OCR its complete quarter-century Television News Archive spans ten million broadcasts…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Comparing 1FPS Frame Extraction Quality Levels
One of the most remarkable and difficult challenges of scaling novel workflows from one-off experiments to massive archive-scale production implementations…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Ornamental Vs Chyron Text
One of the great tradeoffs in using image montaging to achieve a 100-200x performance increase and cost reduction for at-scale…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Vertical + Horizonal Text – Results From A Taiwanese Broadcast
Unlike most of the world, television news broadcasts in Taiwan make regular use of vertical onscreen text that appears alongside…
At-Scale OCR Of Television News Experiments: Results From A Sample Circa-2018 South Sudan Broadcast
Below is a transcribed OCR excerpt from a circa-2018 South Sudanese broadcast. As with our previous examples, the difficulties of…
Politifact: “After meeting with Elon Musk, Republican leader Sen. John Thune announces plans to cut Social Security.”
Politifact examines coverage of Sen. Thune's comments. Read The Full Article.
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…
The Guardian: The unhinged presentation of Muslims on GB News has been exposed. What will Ofcom do about it?
An analysis of GB News coverage of Muslims. Read The Full Article.
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…
HuffPost: Now There's Resurfaced Video Of Pete Hegseth Completely Trashing Trump
A HuffPost analysis of Pete Hegseth. Read The Full Article.
AFP: Teary-Eyed Trudeau Video is Years Old, Unrelated to Trump Tariffs
AFP Fact Check on Trudeau. Read The Full Article.