Summary

GCP Image Vision is an image detection service that allows you to add Google image analysis technology to your applications. The GCP Image Vision function allows you to detect people, faces, explicit content, logos, objects, text, and labels such as locations and activities in images.

This function comes with the following variants:

• Image properties, to detect general attributes of the image, such as dominant color.
• Label Detection, to return labels about an image. It will detect general objects, locations, activities, animal species, products and more. Labels are returned in English.
• Logo Detection, to identify popular logos within an image. It returns their coordinates and description.
• Object Detection, to detect multiple objects in an image and provides information for each object in the image. For each object, you will get the position of the object, and rectangular bounds for the region of the image that contains the object.
• Image explicit content detection, to detect content such as adult or violent content within an image. It can be used in automated moderation systems.
• Image OCR, to detect the text in the image. You will get the entire extracted string, as well as individual words, and their bounding boxes.
• Image Web Detection, to find similar images on the web. With this variant, you can find duplicate images or similar images on the internet.

Advantages of using Koyeb's GCP image vision Function

With Koyeb, you can run the GCP Image Vision function to add image analysis and content discovery to your applications in seconds. Additional benefits: * Store the result on the cloud service provider of your choice * Enjoy a ready to use function that requires no code or complex configuration to get started * Combine additional processing actions that immediately use the results of the GCP image vision function

Popular Use Cases with the GCP Image Vision Function

• Create image libraries that are easier to search
• Conduct demographic analysis
• Detect explicit content
• Identify duplicate or similiar images on the internet
• Enrich your application database
• Extract text from images

How the GCP Image Vision Function Works with Koyeb

To get started with the GCP image vision function, you have to copy the configuration snippet below and replace the required values with yours. This function is triggered each time an object of type type what is created in the Store you use.

Below is what you need to use this function: * A Koyeb account * Valid GCP credentials with permissions configured to access the GCP Vision API * A Store to upload images and save the function result