Photos and various images are one of the most important components of any social network. It's hard to even imagine Facebook or VKontakte without millions of pictures that users upload there daily. That's why the team of engineers involved in adapting Facebook for people with disabilities is doing all they can to make photos accessible to blind users. And now, starting from today, the technology "automatic alternative text" has become available on the social network, which literally voices everything that is depicted in the photographs.
Artificial Intelligence in fully automatic mode tries to describe a photo and its contents to a blind Facebook user. For example, if the picture shows two people on the sea coast, the AI will note that there are two people in the picture, try to establish emotions on their faces, and also note that the picture was taken by the sea in the daytime. If the picture shows a pizza, the AI will explain that it shows the food, most likely - pizza. Of course, the percentage of successful interpretations is far from perfect, but the team of Facebook experts continues to improve the algorithm, and something tells us that sooner or later they will manage to achieve what they want.
The technology is available to users of mobile operating systems iOS and Android, as well as those people who prefer to visit the social network using stationary web browsers. The neural network responsible for object recognition is constantly being improved and trained by studying millions of different photographs. The team of engineers working on this technology includes Matt King, also devoid of vision, so that specialists perfectly understand what it means to be devoid of one of the most important feelings in our life.
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