What is a cloud OCR system?

Cloud computing has become the biggest trend in the world. Gartner research report shows that by the end of 20 15, the global cloud computing market has reached175 billion US dollars, and it is expected to exceed 300 billion US dollars in 20 19. Domestic BAT giants are also eyeing the market.

This time, Baidu announced the brand upgrade and upgraded "Baidu Cloud Computing" to "Baidu Cloud". Unlike Ali and Tencent, Baidu is best at artificial intelligence, and this time Baidu has also added the weight of cloud computing in the field of artificial intelligence.

Zhang Yaqin, president of Baidu, said that with the exponential growth of big data and the breakthrough of artificial intelligence in the future, "cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence" will become the key to future development. The next scene of the Internet will be dominated by artificial intelligence. All walks of life will rely on "intelligence" to complete their own transformation, and Baidu Cloud has also been fully upgraded.

In fact, driven by artificial intelligence, the future cloud computing is entering a brand-new intelligent field, which mainly presents three major trends.

First, big data has proliferated, and computing power has become the new focus of cloud computing.

There is no such thing as cloud computing in the traditional era, because the problem that needs to be solved in the early days is storage. Thousands of enterprise websites need to be networked, and these enterprises only need hosting services.

However, the mobile era is a key turning point. With the advent of the mobile era, the data left by users in enterprise products began to surge, which can be described by astronomical figures compared with the pc era, and many industries such as e-commerce, logistics, medical care, education, marketing, finance and so on. Has been fully affected. These enterprises also increasingly need to adjust their products and improve their planning through user data, which has a great demand for computing power.

The previous cloud computing solved the storage problem, but did not solve the problem of how enterprises deal with big data. Therefore, how to deal with big data efficiently is a new focus in the future. When storage capacity is no longer important, computing capacity is becoming a new goal of future enterprises.

Baidu Cloud released "Tiansuan" to meet this demand. Baidu itself started with computing power. From the beginning, it needs to calculate a lot of data. Its daily average response search exceeds 6 billion times, covering 97.5% of netizens in the country. LBS requests exceed 30 billion times a day, and voice recognition requests exceed 65438+ billion times a day. These data make Baidu's computing power get strong training and constantly push its own ability.

This "Tiansuan" opening is to share the accumulation of 16 years with the whole society, so that every industry can solve the problem of big data utilization most efficiently.

Second, user interaction began to diversify, and it was difficult for enterprises to cope with it.

In the early pc era, due to the inconvenience of operating equipment, the interaction between users and machines can only be through words, but the smart phone in the mobile era has brought great portability, such as how far the user's request starts, picture request, voice request, video request and other forms.

Only by mastering these brand-new forms of interaction can enterprises grasp the future, so they need artificial intelligence technology to cope with the changes of user scenarios, help their users to use their products more conveniently and efficiently, and respond correctly regardless of their voice requests or picture requests. But in fact, the entry threshold in this field is extremely high, and it is impossible for most companies to set up separate departments for research and development, so the third party providing artificial intelligence services becomes the key.

In the face of the above-mentioned brand-new user interaction scene, Baidu Cloud released "Sky Image", which can provide cloud services for developers to process, store and distribute videos, pictures, documents and other multimedia, and can also provide additional services such as "anti-pornography service", "visual effects", "face recognition" and "character recognition". In addition, Baidu Ecology also provides huge traffic support for "astronomical phenomena", which makes enterprises gain huge benefits.

Corresponding to changing user scenarios has always been the focus of Baidu's long-term layout. Taking speech recognition and picture recognition as examples, Baidu's accuracy rate in speech recognition is as high as 97%, and its DeepSpeech2 deep speech learning has also been rated as one of the top ten breakthrough technologies by MIT Review, which ranks alongside aerospace technology and biotechnology, and it is also the only China company selected. In terms of image recognition, Baidu's DeepImage can recognize image content, and the accuracy of LWF face recognition is 99.86%, and the accuracy of text OCR is 90%.

At present, Baidu has also fully opened up the technology of voice and pictures. Developers can not only access the "astronomical phenomena", but also directly use Baidu's open platform for speech recognition and image recognition to easily realize the high threshold technology that they cannot complete.

Third, the rise of the Internet of Things, the overall evolution of cloud computing to artificial intelligence.

Following German Industry 4.0, China also put forward the "Made in China 2025 Plan" in 20 14, and intelligent engineering was officially put on the agenda. In 2025, key manufacturing industries will be fully intelligent and realize unified intelligent management.

Cloud computing in the Internet of Things is different from other cloud computing. Its focus is not on storage and hosting. It needs a standardized management rule, so that devices can be connected, scheduled, detected and so on. These all rely on artificial intelligence technology, that is to say, in the cloud computing of the Internet of Things, traditional cloud computing is no longer competent. It not only needs to be combined with artificial intelligence, but also needs to evolve itself into artificial intelligence.

The "Tiangong" released by Baidu Cloud this time is precisely to cope with the overall layout of the future Internet of Things era, and Baidu itself has also made considerable moves in the Internet of Things. Unmanned vehicles can be said to be the epitome of the whole internet of things, involving many top software and hardware technologies, and Baidu lists unmanned vehicles as its focus.

From the very beginning, Baidu took the most advanced autonomous driving of unmanned vehicles as the standard, adopted the world's most advanced sensors and other equipment, and cooperated with its own cutting-edge voice technology, image recognition technology, map technology and deep learning technology to realize the operation of unmanned vehicles. It also received strong support from the government, and obtained pilot licenses in Wuhu, China and California respectively. It is not only the first company in Asia to manufacture unmanned vehicles, but also the only company recognized by the two governments.

Unmanned vehicles are the comprehensive integration of top cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, and Tiangong is to open these early artificial intelligence along the technology, so that more Internet of Things developers can obtain low-cost and efficient solutions. At present, Tiangong has cooperated with Deng Yun, Mutual Information, Puyun, Zhixiang Technology, Internet of Things World and other Internet of Things companies, which will attract more and more top developers in the future.

Conclusion:

The future is the era of data, multiple requests from users and Internet of Things devices. Traditional hosted cloud computing will not be competent, and cloud computing will fully evolve into artificial intelligence. There is no cloud computing in the future, only artificial intelligence, and this trend has already begun.