Is there any website where can I just upload a pic and see how it works without trying to figure out how to access their API?
Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
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#62Is the best way of sending an image still base64 encoding it in JSON?
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#63Affectiva offers SDKs for facial expression and emotion analysis from images that work in realtime and offline without having to send images to the cloud.
http://developer.affectiva.com
disclamer: I work for them.
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#64Is the best way of sending an image still base64 encoding it in JSON?
If 'best' means most compatible with varying types of systems large and small, then yes.
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#65I was looking into label detection APIs (and Google's offerings as well) for a silly game/website I was thinking of writing, but $5 per 1000 images is way too steep, especially if each user is submitting 1-5 images per interaction with the website. The $2 per 1000 images price they mention on the blog post is only if you're doing 5+ million images a month. I played with IBM Watson visual recognition API and it didn't…
I'm almost 100% sure that the Cloud Vision API will also return "cartoon" or "artwork" or something similar. This is because of how the models are trained.
What you need is a custom model that is trained specifically on hand drawn pictures. You can use something like TensorFlow to build this, but getting the raw data might be challenging.
Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud
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#66Is there any website where can I just upload a pic and see how it works without trying to figure out how to access their API?
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#67I don't know for certain, but I suspect that Google utilized images from the web in training this system. Even if they didn't, suppose they had. I think this can raise an interesting question around copyright. In training an AI system with hundreds/thousands of bits of data, no single piece of training data makes much of a difference. If one of my images on the web that I had captioned with the keyword 'dog' was used…
This would be like saying Google's Search Index is a copyright infringement. Or indeed, anything that utilizes any public copyrighted information to infer any details.
To me this is taking copyright protection way way too far and the kind of system that could severely gum up progress and innovation.
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#68I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
Well, we've actually been using AlchemyAPI for this exact function for some time now. They were recently acquired by the IBM Watson team, so it's kind of a pain to get set up through them now (you have to go in through the Bluemix control panel to create an account and set up billing). They're probably not as accurate as Google, which is why I'm going to be spending tomorrow implementing this and comparing the results, but they are pretty darn good.
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#69I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
I like how the announcement post already prepares for the end of "our incredibly journey" by saying "Google Cloud Vision API is our first step on the journey".
Yes, a journey has an end, but hopefully it leaves us at a desirable destination.
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#70I've been using this since the private beta to enrich my eCommerce crawlers with product identifiers not found on the content of an eCommerce product page, but found in the product image itself. Imagine a part number or UPC displayed on a product box, but nowhere in the HTML content of the product page. Using the Google CV OCR feature I can extract meaningful product data from an image to compliment my existing crawl…
What's the hit rate for extracting meaningful information? Any false positives?