At Cortex (http://www.meetcortex.com/) we are using this and technology like it to help brands be smarter about marketing content on social media. Really cool stuff.
Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
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#92Disclosure: I am an evangelist for the Watson Developer Cloud suite of services at IBM. The new wave of vision services are amazing. There are a lot of players in this field, including IBM Watson, which has a suite of vision APIs available with similar features. One key differentiator of the Watson offering is that we have a trainable API called Visual Recognition [2]. The pre-trained APIs are excellent and have broa…
We looked at Watson a few month back and it didn't seem as good as some of the other image tagging APIs. Maybe we should look into this again.
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#93Would it be possible to do product recognition such as brand and model from images without label?
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#94Disclosure: I am an evangelist for the Watson Developer Cloud suite of services at IBM. The new wave of vision services are amazing. There are a lot of players in this field, including IBM Watson, which has a suite of vision APIs available with similar features. One key differentiator of the Watson offering is that we have a trainable API called Visual Recognition [2]. The pre-trained APIs are excellent and have broa…
We looked at Watson a few month back and it didn't seem as good as some of the other image tagging APIs. Maybe we should look into this again.
Once you're on to training and not using off-the-shelf models, there are several good open source packages out there, from digits to deepdetect. It is not that difficult anymore to get at least a first model with decent accuracy.
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#95I'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…
I have been struggling with getting the new "service keys" working with this API. This is the first place that Google is mandating its new security infrastructure.
Do you have any sample code that works ?
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#96Having unlimited free storage for google photos makes sense now :)
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#97I'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…
Out of curiosity, why are there so many people crawling sites for prices like what you're talking about? All of the freelance sites are... well, crawling with jobs involving web scrapers. What's the business here that I'm missing?
Affiliate marketing, price arbitrage, integrating with things that don't have APIs or have very poor APIS.
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#98Disclosure: I am an evangelist for the Watson Developer Cloud suite of services at IBM. The new wave of vision services are amazing. There are a lot of players in this field, including IBM Watson, which has a suite of vision APIs available with similar features. One key differentiator of the Watson offering is that we have a trainable API called Visual Recognition [2]. The pre-trained APIs are excellent and have broa…
Do you have pricing information available anywhere? All I can see is [1] but that's not really interesting. Compare with [2] which makes it quite easy to guess how much I'd pay. [1] http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-sales [2] https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing
Hi Teh, I'm a IBM Watson Developer Evangelist. The pricing is available here when you click on Standard plan: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/alchemy_api/
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#99I 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…
Here is an analysis of Google projects that have been closed later: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
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#100There is mention of GCV being able to calculate various image properties (dominant colour, being the example) yet there is no reference to what it actually returns in the API docs.
Can someone who has this active shed some light?