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…
AFP: Teary-Eyed Trudeau Video is Years Old, Unrelated to Trump Tariffs
AFP Fact Check on Trudeau. Read The Full Article.
CNN: Hegseth Has A History of Supporting Controversial Policies Involving The Military
A CNN deep dive on Pete Hegseth. Read The Full Article.
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:…
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…