Last week at GR8Conf Europe, I spoke about the machine learning APIs provided by  Google Cloud Platform: Vision, Natural Language, Speech recognition and synthesis, etc. Since it’s GR8Conf, that means showing samples and demos using a pretty Groovy language, and I promised to share my code afterwards. So here’s a series of blog posts covering the demos I’ve presented. We’ll start with the Vision API.

The Vision API allows you to:

• Get labels of what appears in your pictures,
• Detect faces, with precise location of face features,
• Tell you if the picture is a particular landmark,
• Check for inappropriate content,
• Give you some image attributes information,
• Find if the picture is already available on the net,
• Detects brand logos,
• Or extract text that appears in your images (OCR).

You can try out those features online directly from the Cloud Vision API product page: