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Disclosure: I am an evangelist for the Watson Developer Cloud suite of services at IBM. The new wave of vision services are amazing. There are a lot of players

by abtinf 11y ago

Disclosure: I am an evangelist for the Watson Developer Cloud suite of services at IBM. The new wave of vision services are amazing. There are a lot of players in this field, including IBM Watson, which has a suite of vision APIs available with similar features. One key differentiator of the Watson offering is that we have a trainable API called Visual Recognition [2]. The pre-trained APIs are excellent and have broad uses, but it's amazing to see the results from even basic training to identify image tags directly relevant to your use case. There is a demo [3] that allows you to try it out by creating a new classifier right in the web page. You can find some demos at: http://vision.alchemy.ai/#demo http://vision.alchemy.ai/#demo - example images that demonstrate facial detection and identification, label extraction, object identification, and so on. Another demo at http://visual-insights-demo.mybluemix.net/ http://visual-insights-demo.mybluemix.net/ uses the Visual Insights [1] API to identify a set of relevant tags. [1]: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/visual-insights.html https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc... [2]: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/visual-recognition.html https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc... [3]: https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/ https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/

teh 11y ago
Do you have pricing information available anywhere? All I can see is [1] but that's not really interesting. Compare with [2] which makes it quite easy to guess how much I'd pay. [1] http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-sales http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-sales [2] https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing
- yrezgui 11y ago
  Hi Teh, I'm a IBM Watson Developer Evangelist. The pricing is available here when you click on Standard plan: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/alchemy_api/ https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/alchemy_api/
  - philip142au 11y ago
    You make it too inconvenient to get started as compared to the others, its about convenience and simplicity for on boarding people.
    - yrezgui 11y ago
      Hi Philip, can you drop me a mail at yrezgui [at] uk.ibm.com, I would be happy to have a chat with you :)
dk8996 11y ago
We looked at Watson a few month back and it didn't seem as good as some of the other image tagging APIs. Maybe we should look into this again.
- pilooch 11y ago
  Once you're on to training and not using off-the-shelf models, there are several good open source packages out there, from digits to deepdetect. It is not that difficult anymore to get at least a first model with decent accuracy.
  - dk8996 11y ago
    Its a big challenge creating a good training set for start-ups or companies without expertise.

by abtinf 11y ago

teh 11y ago

Do you have pricing information available anywhere? All I can see is [1] but that's not really interesting. Compare with [2] which makes it quite easy to guess how much I'd pay. [1] http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-sales http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-sales [2] https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing

yrezgui 11y ago
Hi Teh, I'm a IBM Watson Developer Evangelist. The pricing is available here when you click on Standard plan: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/alchemy_api/ https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/alchemy_api/
- philip142au 11y ago
  You make it too inconvenient to get started as compared to the others, its about convenience and simplicity for on boarding people.
  - yrezgui 11y ago
    Hi Philip, can you drop me a mail at yrezgui [at] uk.ibm.com, I would be happy to have a chat with you :)

dk8996 11y ago

We looked at Watson a few month back and it didn't seem as good as some of the other image tagging APIs. Maybe we should look into this again.

pilooch 11y ago
Once you're on to training and not using off-the-shelf models, there are several good open source packages out there, from digits to deepdetect. It is not that difficult anymore to get at least a first model with decent accuracy.
- dk8996 11y ago
  Its a big challenge creating a good training set for start-ups or companies without expertise.