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Azure Cognitive Services has achieved human parity in image captioning

14th October 2020 Anthony Mashford

Computer Vision, part of Azure Cognitive Services, now offers an updated image captioning capability that has achieved human parity based on the Novel Object Captioning at Scale (NOCAPS) benchmark.
Source: Azure Roadmap

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