Google is helping smartphones better recognize images without requiring massive power consumption, thanks to a new set of models the company released today. Called MobileNets, the pre-trained image recognition models let developers pick between a set of models that vary in size and accuracy to best suit what their application needs.
Right now, a lot of the machine learning inside mobile apps works by passing data off to cloud services for processing and then providing the resulting insights to users once they return over the network. That means it’s possible to use very powerful computers in a data center and alleviate the burden for processing information on a smartphone. The drawback to that approach is that latency and privacy suffer.
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