{"id":21777,"date":"2014-05-09T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=21777"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:17:28","slug":"google-street-view-vs-captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/09\/google-street-view-vs-captcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Street View vs. captcha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google Online Security Blog<\/a> shares the news on the innovation in image recognition technology used in Google Street View:<\/p>\n

Translating a street address to an exact location on a map is harder than it seems. To take on this challenge and make Google Maps even more useful, we\u2019ve been working on a new system to help locate addresses even more accurately, using some of the technology from the Street View and reCAPTCHA teams.<\/p>\n

This technology finds and reads street numbers in Street View, and correlates those numbers with existing addresses to pinpoint their exact location on Google Maps. We\u2019ve described these findings in a scientific paper at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). In this paper, we show that this system is able to accurately detect and read difficult numbers in Street View with 90% accuracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are some examples of correctly identified street numbers – quite impressive!<\/p>\n

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What’s even more interesting that pushing this technology for good uses also empowers the evil side of things:<\/p>\n

Turns out that this new algorithm can also be used to read CAPTCHA puzzles\u2014we found that it can decipher the hardest distorted text puzzles from reCAPTCHA with over 99% accuracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oops!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Google Online Security Blog shares the news on the innovation in image recognition technology used in Google Street View: Translating a street address to an exact location on a map is harder than it seems. To take on this challenge and make Google Maps even more useful, we\u2019ve been working on a new system to … Continue reading Google Street View vs. captcha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2070,1460,200,314],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-google-maps","tag-image-recognition","tag-security","tag-spam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14584,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/14\/9-eyes-highlights-of-google-street-view\/","url_meta":{"origin":21777,"position":0},"title":"9 eyes – highlights of Google Street View","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"9 eyes is a collection of images taken by the Google Street View camera. \u00a0 Some are funny. \u00a0Others - not so. 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