Mastering Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2.x

Visual search using GCP

GCP has a vision API to perform cloud-based image information, including facial detection and image content analysis. For more details, visit https://cloud.google.com/vision. See the example results that were uploaded for a sofa in the following screenshot; detection was carried out along with several examples of visually similar images:

As we learned in Chapter 6, Visual Search Using Transfer Learning, for visually similar images it is essential to search within the image class. If the image is not from the web, it is likely to detect similar visual images of a different class, as you can see in the sofa examples here. ...