A new algorithm for recognizing images from Google is able to recognize CAPTCHA to within 99, 8%

Today, the team of the project Google Street View has published interesting news. The fact that the developers have created a new service algorithm for image recognition to identify with greater precision the house numbers and street names, photographed cars Google.



And this algorithm is proved to be very effective in the other case - in recognition of CAPTCHA. And Google's own captcha algorithm recognizes companies with unprecedented efficiency - 99, 8%. This is significantly better result than the shows even people. You know how many times sometimes need to type captcha code before the system recognizes their right to recognize.

Old image recognition algorithm worked on the house numbers with an efficiency of 90%, which is quite a bit, because the volume of the analyzed data are huge and some bugs are laid out on Street View. At the moment, the system recognizes the already 100 million hotel rooms worldwide.

As for the captcha, the Google developers do not worry about it. On the contrary, it is now clear how else can you protect your own CAPTCHA, to recognize its worse automatic systems of various kinds intruders / spammers. In general, reCAPTCHA becomes more reliable, and Street View will have fewer errors.

Via techcrunch

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