The Cloud Vision API

The Cloud Vision API provides vision detection features, including the following:

  • Image labeling
  • Face and landmark detection
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  • Tagging explicit content

You can test this API using https://cloud.google.com/vision/. You simply upload the image and see what analysis is possible.

If we look at the Faces tab, we can see that a face and a hat were detected correctly. The service was also able to detect the feeling of joy, which I can confirm, as it is me in the photograph having a lot of fun:

In the Objects tab, we can see that most of the objects have been identified correctly, although I ...

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