Leverage deep learning in IBM Cloud Functions

Based on Apache OpenWhisk, IBM Cloud Functions is a Functions as a Service (FaaS) platform that makes it easy to build and deploy serverless applications. In this tutorial, you'll build a serverless application using IBM Cloud Functions that monitors the content of a Cloud Object Storage bucket and analyzes the content of images that are uploaded to the bucket by a human or an automated process. For illustrative purposes, analysis is performed by a deep learning microservice from the Model Asset eXchange and analysis results are stored as JSON files in the same bucket. You can easily adapt the outlined approach to take advantage of hosted cognitive services, such as those provided by IBM Watson, and to store results in a NoSQL datastore like Cloudant or a relational database. By completing this introductory tutorial, you learn how to monitor a Cloud Object Storage bucket for changes (new objects, updated objects, or deleted objects) using Cloud Functions and how to use deep learning microservices from the Model Asset eXchange to automatically analyze those objects in near real time.