Exploring Machine Learning With Google Cloud Vision API

My talk during the awesome #DevFestNairobi 2018 about exploring Machine Learning using Google Cloud Vision API for Web and Mobile applications.

Google Cloud Vision API allows you to explore powerful image analysis with
-Pretrained models
-Ability to build custom models using AutoML Vision

And provides access via an easy-to-use REST API

Transcript

1. Exploring Machine Learning With Google Cloud Vision API +OlayinkaPeterOluwafemi @olayinkapeter_ Organizer, Google Cloud Developer Community, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
2. Sometime in late 2017, I published Toodoo, a Firebase-powered app that basically lets you add tasks you want to be reminded of, but with some Machine Learning capabilities.
3. Toodoo is not special. Except that it solves the problem of: Users spending large amount of time and/or having trouble in trying to read small printed material in a voluminous page
4. Hence, allowing users to: • Hunt for text material (in languages such as Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese & Spanish) with a device camera to capture an image. • Process the image and extract the text from it using powerful Google Cloud vision Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support. • Copy the extracted image to clipboard, and add them as to-dos
5. The powerful Google Cloud Vision API made that possible
6. Powerful image analysis Google Cloud Vision API allows you to explore powerful image analysis with • Pretrained models • Ability to build custom models using AutoML Vision Easy-to-use REST API
7. Easily detect broad sets of objects in your images With AutoML Vision, you can create custom models that highlight specific concepts from your images. This enables use cases ranging from categorizing product images to diagnosing diseases.
8. Extracts and identifies text Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enables you to detect text within your images or via the camera, along with automatic language identification. Remember Toodoo?
9. Power of the web Vision API uses the power of Google Image Search to find topical entities like celebrities, logos, or news events. Millions of entities are supported, so you can be confident that the latest relevant images are available.
10. Moderates content With the power of Google SafeSearch, one can easily moderate content and detect inappropriate content from crowd-sourced images. That is, detect different types of inappropriate content, from adult to violent content.
11. Let’s check it out! cloud.google.com/vision
15. Google Cloud Vision API allows you to do all that Machine Learning, and a bit more...
16. Getting started with the Mobile Vision API usage The Mobile Vision package consists of common base functionality, and subpackages for specific Machine Learning implementations. These subpackages are easily accessed by adding their package URL to the project dependencies. Note that the common functionality package must first be added. • Common functionality: com.google.android.gms.vision • Face detector: com.google.android.gms.vision.face • Barcode detector: com.google.android.gms.vision.barcode • Text detector: com.google.android.gms.vision.text
17. Already got great ideas?
18. cloud.google.com/vision/docs/quickstart