Deep Learning summary for 2017: Machine Perception Developments

In one of our recent articles we told about the advances in Deep Learning text and speech applications. An equally prominent domain is the DL algorithms for machine perception. Google Brain team has developed a new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithm to improve Google Maps and Street View services with better road sign recognition capabilities. Due to this they were able to make the road signs better visible on more than 80 billion photographs. The resulting model is also able to concentrate on the shop signs automatically, filtering them out of the unneeded visual noise on the photos.