Programmable Object Detection, Fast and Easy

So far, to showcase BigML's upcoming Object Detection release, we have demonstrated how you can annotate images on the platform, we have covered an example use case to detect cats and dogs and shared how to execute the newly available features by using the BigML Dashboard, as well as another example to build a plant disease detector. In contrast, this installment demonstrates how to perform Object Detection by calling the BigML REST API. Briefly, Object Detection is a supervised learning technique for images that not only shows where an object is in the image, but it also can show where instances of objects from multiple classes are located in the image. Let's jump in and see how we can put it to use programmatically. Before using the API, you must set up your environment variables.