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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide Build intelligent applications with Google Cloud AI services

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788626613

Length 234 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Ravulavaru

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Introducing Google Cloud AI Services FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up a Smart Forum App

3. Cloud Vision API

4. Video Intelligence API

5. Cloud Speech API

6. Cloud Natural Language

7. Cloud Translation

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Index

Exploring the Vision API

Now that we have all the required setup done, let's get started with exploring the API. In this section, we are going to explore the following features of the Vision API:

Face detection
Label detection
Safe search detection

We are going to explore these features using a REST API. There are other features as well, which are quite similar to those previously discussed. You can try them out for yourself.

Face detection

We are going to start off with face detection. In the project folder that you downloaded along with this book, or https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Getting-Started-with-Google-Cloud-AI-Services, you can find a folder for Chapter 3, inside that folder you will find another folder named API, and inside that folder, a foldernamedImages. Inside Images, I have placed all the sample image files that I have used for testing, for your reference. You are free to use any images.

Inside theAPI\Image folder, refer to the Face_Detection_SriDevi.jpg image. As a tribute to...

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Authors (1)

Ravulavaru

Ravulavaru

Arvind Ravulavaru is a platform architect at Ubiconn IoT Solutions, with over 9 years of experience in software development and 2 years in hardware & product development. For the last 5 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side. And for the last couple of years in IoT, building a platform for rapidly developing IoT solutions, named The IoT Suitcase. Prior to that, Arvind worked on big data, cloud computing, and orchestration.

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