What is Cloud Vision API?
Cloud vision API provides powerful image analytics capabilities as easy to use APIs. It enable application developers to build the next generation of application that can see and understand the content within the image. It quickly classifies image into thousand of categories (eg: apple, lion, pencil ....). The service enable the customer to build metadata on their image catalog, moderate offensive content, or enable new marketing scenarios though image sentiment analysis.
The Cloud Vision API Features
Label Detection : Detect broad set of categories within an images, ranging from modes of transportation to animals.
FaceDetection and Landmark Detection : Detect multiple face within the images, along with the associated key facial attributes like emotional state or wearing headwear. Facial Recognition is not supported.
Explicit Content Detection : detect explicit content like adult content or violence content within the image.
Image Attributes : Detect general attributes of the image, such as dominant, colors and appropriate crop hints.
Logo Detection : Detect popular product logo within the image.
Web Detection : Search on the internet for the similar image.
Integrated REST API : Access via REST API to request one or more annotation type per image. Images can be uploaded in the request or integrated with Google Cloud Storage
Optical Character Recognition : Detect and extract text within an image with support for broad range of languages, along with support for automatic language identification.