Google Opens Cloud Vision API Beta to Entire Developer Community

Today, Google announced the beta release of its Google Cloud Vision API. The API was designed to empower applications to both see and understand images submitted to the API. With powerful features such as label/entity detection, optical character recognition, safe search detection, facial detection, landmark detection, and logo detection; the Cloud Vision API gives applications unprecedented ability to comprehend the situation within an image. With the new API, Google enters a rapidly developing market where both startups and major enterprises are producing cutting edge technology. From Microsoft, with its Project Oxford, to niche startups like Cognitec and Lambda Labs; image analysis is proving to be an attractive space as it appeals across industries from marketing to security.