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Fun with Google Cloud Vision API
A few weeks ago Google announced that Google Cloud Vision API was in beta. I’m pretty excited about this so I put together a web site that allows submission of images to the api and it returns the top 10 labels generated for the image by the API.
I called the app Jicho (swahili for eye). All this is running on Google’s Cloud platform, and I’m using my free Google Cloud credits for the minimal charges associated with each image labeling and the score associated with that particular label. The app is available here.
Initial thoughts. I’m impressed, The API performs well for most images. I’ve also seen the labeling improve over the last few weeks (i.e. some images that it labeled incorrectly are now labeled correctly. Below is a sampling of some images I submitted and how they got labeled.
The API has more capabilities than just labeling images. You can find out more here