How to Build a Monitoring Application With the Google Cloud Vision API

Have you often wondered about the accuracy of Google Images and thought about how you could incorporate some of that technology in your applications? Google with its years of data and machine learning experience, and backed by its infrastructure, has been announcing not just how much of their own applications are utilizing Machine Learning but also opening up their platform for developers to use. In this article we'll cover the Google Cloud Vision API, which enables you to give vision capability to your applications backed by Google's Machine Vision Infrastructure. We will provide a high level overview of the API and its features and then show you how to get started with basic examples that let you exercise the API's features. There are multiple references in the article that will help you as you go deeper into this API.