AI-Generated Image Captions on Instagram and Facebook Can Be Game-Changing for Visually Impaired
In every image’s metadata, there is Alt text that describes its contents. People who are visually impaired can get a rough idea of the content of the photo by reading this text. The photographers usually ensure that they add these descriptions manually but people who upload photos to social media usually don’t bother. To make social media more accessible, technology has been used to automatically generate this data so visually impaired users could use social networks with ease. An image analysis AI creates a caption for every picture that is posted to Instagram or Facebook. The new improved system is going to help visually impaired users access these sites just as easily as others. They might also help in accessing photos faster in the future. In 2016, Facebook had created its Automatic Alt Text system but since then the team has come up with a lot of improvements. The captions are now much more detailed and which makes them faster. The new improved system now has 10 times m...