From WindowsCental.com…….
Microsoft revealed that it has achieved a breakthrough in using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically caption images. In its tests and a novel object captioning benchmark, Microsoft says its AI model managed to describe images as well as humans can. The model could help improve accessibility across the web and in apps by providing automatic image captions for people with visual impairments.
“Ideally, everyone would include alt text for all images in documents, on the web, in social media – as this enables people who are blind to access the content and participate in the conversation. But, alas, people don’t,” said Microsoft AI platform group software engineering manager Saqib Shaikh in Microsoft’s blog post announcing the breakthrough. “So, there are several apps that use image captioning as way to fill in alt text when it’s missing.”
