Computer vision is the field of making computers understand images and make sense of them. Common computer vision tasks include image classification, image detection, image segmentation, and so on. As discussed in earlier chapters, the field of computer vision has been heavily affected by the effectiveness of deep learning in achieving human-level (and sometimes even better) performance.
The Cloud Vision API provides us with a lot of utilities for performing computer vision tasks. Cloud Vision allows us to use the pre-trained models as well as build our own custom production-ready models that cater to our needs (such as AutoML Vision Beta). Let's now briefly look at the features that are offered by the Cloud Vision API:
- Label detection
- Optical character recognition
- Handwriting recognition
- Landmark detection
- Object localization
- Image search...
