Upstage Sweeps 4 Categories at International AI Competition, Surpassing Amazon and Nvidia

Upstage announced on the 21st that it swept four categories at the world’s most prestigious artificial intelligence (AI) optical character recognition (OCR) competition, the ‘ICDAR Robust Reading Competition.’ The ‘ICDAR Robust Reading Competition’ is the most authoritative international contest in the field of technology that detects and recognizes text in digital images and videos.

OCR is broadly divided into ▲‘detection technology,’ which finds the location of characters in images, and ▲‘recognition technology,’ which identifies what the characters are. Upstage achieved the highest scores in both character detection and recognition technologies, outperforming global big tech companies such as Amazon, NVIDIA, Alibaba, and Huawei.

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Even in the VQAonBD category, where good evaluations cannot be achieved by simple OCR technology alone, Upstage claimed the global top spot. VQAonBD is a category that involves providing document images and obtaining answers to data within the images. For example, after giving a complex tax document, it not only extracts accurate answers to questions like "What is the total tax for 2019?" but also performs computational tasks such as calculating ratios, averages, minimums, and maximums using those values.

Upstage is supporting its clients’ AI innovation by launching AI Pack and API series, no-code/low-code solutions utilizing AI technologies including OCR. By using Upstage AI Pack, users can easily handle data processing, AI modeling, and metric management, as well as receive continuous updates to always use the latest AI technologies.

Kim Seong-hoon, CEO of Upstage, said, "We are very pleased that Upstage’s global top AI technology has been recognized once again by sweeping first place in four categories at the ‘ICDAR Robust Reading Competition,’ the most prestigious competition in the AI OCR field." He added, "With Upstage’s AI OCR, whose world-class technology has been verified, we will support digital transformation and AI global innovation across all industries that require document automation."

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