The technology will enable the development of applications capable of detecting faces, text, dominant colors and other features in images, the company says.

Exposed as REST API, Google Cloud Vision API accepts an image and classifies it into thousands of categories. It can detect faces with emotions and also recognize printed words from many languages.

It seems unlikely that customers will be able to get it for free, however, considering that Google charges for use of its API. The Image Recognition capabilities are available in private beta ...

Google on Wednesday announced the launch of the Cloud Vision application programming interface (API). As a tool for developers, the API can be used to add machine learning and image recognition to ...

After a short limited preview, Google today announced the public beta of its Cloud Vision API — a service that allows developers to easily build image recognition and classification features ...

Best known for its annual visual recognition challenge, ImageNet was launched by computer scientists at Stanford and Princeton in 2009 with 80,000 tagged images.It has since grown to include more ...

The FaceR API provides the critical functions for face detection, facial features detection (up to 24) and 2D to 3D pose correction, which converts an angulated facial image to a perfectly ...

Image-recognition technology startup CamFind has announced a $4.8 million funding round as it launches a new public API called CloudSight.. We last covered CamFind back in September, just as the ...

Image recognition was already good—but it's getting way, way better. A research collaboration between Google and Stanford University is producing software ...

Online giant eBay announced it is releasing an Image Search API that will allow external developers to use eBay's image recognition technology for their own uses to help drive more listing ...