Around the world: landmark detection with the Cloud Vision API Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Google Cloud Platform

Posted by Sara Robinson, Developer Advocate I've been playing around with Google's machine learning tools recently, especially image recognition. By far, my favorite feature of the Cloud Vision API is landmark detection: you send the API a picture of a popular (or obscure) landmark and it returns JSON with the name of the landmark, its latitude / longitude coordinates, a bounding box indicating where the landmark was found in the image, and even more landmark metadata. To see the Vision API in action and understand how it works behind the scenes, let's look at some landmarks from around the world. First, let's see what a JSON response looks like. We'll start with this image of the Eiffel Tower: If at first glance you thought this was a picture of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, you were wrong (don't worry, I was too).