Introducing the Cloud Vision API

The Cloud Vision API is a popular API from the GCP suite. It has been a benchmark service for building applications using computer vision. Briefly, computer vision is the ability of computers to recognize entities in an image, ranging from human faces to roads and vehicles for autonomous driving tasks. Furthermore, computer vision can be used to automate tasks that are performed by the human visual system—such as counting the number of moving vehicles on a road, and observing changes in the physical environment. Computer vision has found a wide application in the following domains:

• Tagging of recognized faces on social media platforms
• Extracting text from images
• Recognizing objects from images 
• Autonomous driving vehicles 
• Medical imagery-based predictions
• Reverse image search
• Landmark detection
• Celebrity recognition ...