Restb.ai: Why custom computer vision as a service makes sense

While others are trying to distill information from images in general terms, RestB says it aims to be much more specific. Last month, Facebook had to apologize after guns, drugs, snakes, and baby hedgehogs were listed for sale on its new Marketplace section. RestB reckons it could have avoided that situation. The Barcelona based B2B startup has developed an algorithm to determine in near real time what is in a particular image, thus solving a number of potential business problems posed through the automated interpretation of imagery. On the face of it, RestB's commercial proposition available through a simple HTTP RESTful API call appears to be quite similar to computer-vision services offered by big firms such as Microsoft, IBM, and Google, which has just published two datasets of captioned images to help train computer-vision systems.