Credit: ExtremeTech
http://mobile.extremetech.com/latest/40259-google-has-built-a-neural-network-to-identify-100-million-house-numbers-for-streetview / Internet prove your humanity type typing words number letter letters numbers captcha Google Google’s recaptcha variant bot automaton spam bots at bay search giant identify text scan scanned books house numbers number Streetview Google brain cycles new research paper Google details company trained neural network read millions unidentified house numbers captured Streetview cameras camera human intervention artificial neural network computational model seek seeks replicate parallel nature living brain system works directly pixel images captured by Streetview cars car brain many previous models model break breaking address image individual digits identify identifying each one look looks whole number recognize recognizes recognize type address Google Map return correct location right addresses structure essential area building numbers not non linear front door company build building synthetic brain train neural network Google used publicly available Street View House Numbers SVHN Dataset massive dataset 200,000 addresses split up into number blocks total 600,000 numerical images train electronic brain six days system learn dataset identify digits Streetview pictures high level accuracy /
