BEIJING, July 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Beijing OrionStar
Technology Co., Ltd. ("OrionStar"), a China-based artificial intelligence company
with which Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE: CMCM) ("Cheetah Mobile") has
entered into an investment agreement, recently ranked number one in
the "MS-Celeb-1M" challenge, a competition to recognize and
identify images of one million celebrities in a pre-set database.
The challenge was organized by Microsoft Research (MSR) for a
workshop at ICCV 2017, the world's premier international computer
vision event.
Researchers at MSR published the first MS-Celeb-1M dataset,
comprising images of real-life celebrities, in June 2016 to encourage the development of
advanced facial recognition technologies. At the same time, they
launched the first MS-Celeb-1M facial recognition challenge.
Participants in the challenge are tasked with using a dataset
provided by MSR as training data to develop an image recognition
system capable of recognizing one million celebrities.
To evaluate the results, a subset of celebrities was selected
from MSR's one-million celebrity list. Images of those celebrities
were then carefully labelled and organized into two sets: a
"random" set, in which one image is randomly selected for each
celebrity from the labelled images; and a "hard" set, which
includes the labelled image from each celebrity that is the most
different from any other image in the training dataset.
Among this year's participants, OrionStar ranked first in the
"Without External Data" category (only using the dataset provided)
of the challenge with a 0.750 coverage probability for the random
set and 0.606 for the hard set. During last year's challenge,
MS-Celeb-1M @ ACM MM2016, the best performance without external
data was 0.734 with the random set and 0.534 with the hard set
(among 13 teams). The "Without External Data" challenge is
significantly more difficult than the "With External Data"
challenge, which allows competitors to access data from outside
sources.
The facial recognition technology utilized by the OrionStar team
in this challenge will have real-world applications for Cheetah
Mobile products, including facial recognition software, robotics
and mobile apps.
OrionStar's facial recognition technology is already being used
in Cheetah Mobile's Live.me social live broadcasting app. Every
day, Live.me produces more than 200,000 hours of live content. To
ensure a wholesome experience, Live.me employs a 24-hour real-time
monitoring system based on facial recognition technology developed
by OrionStar. The technology has other uses as well, including the
ability to recognize brand logos and support ad testing, generate
user tags based on a variety of characteristics, and provide
personalized content recommendations. It also supports all types of
dynamic facial mapping.
About OrionStar
OrionStar is an artificial intelligence company incorporated in
China and controlled by Mr.
Sheng Fu, the chief executive
officer and director of Cheetah Mobile. The company was established
in September 2016 by a group of
technology industry leaders and product specialists from Silicon
Valley, Japan, Taiwan, Beijing and Shenzhen. In May
2017, Beijing Kingsoft Internet Security Software Co., Ltd.
("Beijing Security"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cheetah Mobile,
entered into a capital injection agreement with OrionStar. Pursuant
to the agreement, Beijing Security agreed to subscribe to newly
issued equity interest in OrionStar.
OrionStar is committed to using AI technology to develop the
next generation of ground-breaking technology products and free
people from the burden of overly complicated tasks, make homes more
intelligent and create a better world through technology.
In less than one year, OrionStar has successfully released its
own voice recognition and image recognition systems.
In June 2017, OrionStar partnered
with popular audio streaming platform Ximalaya.com in China to release Xiao
Ya, a voice-operated speaker powered by OrionStar's
self-developed remote voice interactive system, and the first
product to connect to OrionStar's AI ecosystem.
About Cheetah Mobile
Cheetah Mobile is a leading mobile internet company. It
aims to provide leading apps for mobile users worldwide and connect
users with personalized content on the mobile platform.
Cheetah Mobile's products, including its popular utility
applications Clean Master, CM Security and Battery Doctor, help
make users' mobile internet experience smarter, speedier, and
safer. The Company has attracted approximately 600 million global
Mobile MAUs, of which approximately 80% are located outside of
China. Leveraging the success of its utility applications,
Cheetah Mobile has launched its line of mobile content-driven
applications, including News Republic and Live.me.
Cheetah Mobile provides its advertising customers, which include
direct advertisers and mobile advertising networks through which
advertisers place their advertisements, with direct access to
highly targeted mobile users and global promotional channels, which
are capable of delivering targeted content to hundreds of millions
of users.
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