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An API wrapper to Clarifai's image recognition demo

47 points by hackerews 12y ago

antonwinter 12y ago
what the hell, i tried a few images from unplash and it worked flawlessly. how does this magic work?
- antonwinter 12y ago
  i've tried maybe 30 images now. All of them it nailed. i did find one that made me laugh. it doesnt know what a goat is. http://picjumbo.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9454-1300x866.jpg http://picjumbo.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9454-1300x866.jpg ["dog", "australia", "deer", "bear", "cow", "mouflon", "lemur", "wild", "safari", "zoo"]
  - acomjean 12y ago
    or a horse apparently. Did figure the jockey though... http://plocp.com/user/Aram%20Comjean//The%20Belmont%202007/images/20070609-_MG_8284.jpg http://plocp.com/user/Aram%20Comjean//The%20Belmont%202007/i... ["race", "beach", "camel", "rodeo", "jockey", "polo", "toreador", "torero", "donkey", "dog"]
- vinayan3 12y ago
  They must have an army of trolls who are typing in tags.
Navarr 12y ago
Tried a Pokémon card and got "semi relevant" results http://sixprizes.com/wp-content/uploads/pikachu-next-destinies-nde-39.jpg http://sixprizes.com/wp-content/uploads/pikachu-next-destini... ["background", "card", "kid", "vector", "design", "school", "book", "frame", "cartoon", "dog"]
btbuildem 12y ago
I tried a few images, for all of them "woman" was the first result (only one image had a woman in it).
tommoor 12y ago
I don't know why this link doesn't go directly to the source: http://www.clarifai.com/index.html http://www.clarifai.com/index.html
abbottry 12y ago
Facebook Logo: https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png ["cross", "sign", "plus", "pound", "medic", "first", "icon", "jesus", "christian", "aid"]
dhammack 12y ago
Very impressive! Some cool ones it recognized: milk jug http://cdn-jpg.allyou.com/sites/default/files/image/2014/01/400xvariable/i/2009/08/craft-a-birdfeeder-out-l.jpg http://cdn-jpg.allyou.com/sites/default/files/image/2014/01/... ["milk", "gallon", "jug", "product", "detergent", "plastic", "water", "soap", "canteen", "white"] mushroom cloud: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/Images/WE12.jpg http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/Images/WE12.jpg ["fire", "bomb", "mushroom", "flame", "letter", "font", "hell", "volcano", "smoke", "burn"]
adamatclarifai 12y ago
Adam from Clarifai here. As tommoor pointed out, this is just a thin wrapper around our demo at http://www.clarifai.com/ http://www.clarifai.com/ (we're very flattered...) A real API will be out soon. It won't be throttled as heavily as the demo, and will be more developer friendly. you can sign up for early beta access at clarifai.com.
- dang 12y ago
  We've changed the title (from "Identifying Images With an API that Actually Works") in an attempt to share the credit fairly.
- hackerews 12y ago
  Really well done Clarifai. From playing around, it works just as well, if not better, than google's reverse image search: https://api.blockspring.com/users/pkpp1233/blocks/5a1b66ef208007c51a45fda220dbe8db https://api.blockspring.com/users/pkpp1233/blocks/5a1b66ef20....
- rememberlenny 12y ago
  Can you roughly share when the developer API will be ready?
- troels 12y ago
  Wow. The classifier is really impressive. Will it be possible to train your own classifier on your service? I have a lot of clothing items that it would be useful to classify. I tried building my own with opencv, but I haven't had too much luck so far. I signed up for the api access - would be very interested in playing a bit more with this.
  - adamatclarifai 12y ago
    Thanks! Training custom classifiers isn't in the roadmap for v1, but there will be a mechanism for providing feedback (suggesting new tags and marking errors), and we'll continue to improve our models based on that. If you have a very large (100k+ images) well-labeled repository to train from, send us a note at info@clarifai.com, we'll tawk.
robzz 12y ago
pretty impressive!
columbo 12y ago
Wow! This is really neat, I tried to find images that I didn't think it could process, the results are interesting. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Blown_up_electrolytic_capacitor.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Blown_up_... ["piranha", "fish", "food", "water", "gold", "dish", "crab", "kitchen", "glass", "silver"] https://www.flippers.com/images/See-SHFA1_Caps&Mods-PCB.JPG https://www.flippers.com/images/See-SHFA1_Caps&Mods-PCB.JPG ["panel", "retro", "wine", "background", "design", "old", "tool", "letter", "art", "robot"] http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11_lpi_trvrsmap.gif http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11_lpi_trvrsmap.gif ["background", "metal", "water", "man", "wall", "old", "abstract", "paper", "hand", "paint"]
sjtrny 12y ago
Very optimistic. Got a picture of a Hyundai. Reckons it's a BMW or Audi. http://www.airnorth.com.au/sites/default/files/Car%20hire%20-%20Budget%20Hyundai%20i30%20-%20LR.jpg http://www.airnorth.com.au/sites/default/files/Car%20hire%20... ["car", "bmw", "auto", "sport", "3d", "vector", "white", "blue", "front", "audi"]
thomasfromcdnjs 12y ago
I put in the link to my profile picture on twitter -> https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/488579015507050497/QvG1ArTx_400x400.jpeg https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/488579015507050497/QvG1... ["black", "american", "woman", "man", "pitt", "brad", "senior", "worker", "group", "cuba"] Brad Pitt! Great work guys!
nivals 12y ago
Nice! Got some interesting results from a photos of iPhones and iPads. Curious to know how this compares head-to-head with the CamFind API at https://www.mashape.com/imagesearcher/camfind https://www.mashape.com/imagesearcher/camfind which I've been thinking of using for a project.
Falling3 12y ago
Combine this with a Markov Chain and you get a nice story teller.
NKCSS 12y ago
Only car was recognised here: http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2014/05/lamborghini-aventador-galaxy-custom-dxsc-0.jpg http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2014/05/lamborghini-aventa...
orliesaurus 12y ago
Well this went better than I expected :) EDIT: context- I'm the one that made the wrapper for clarifai's API, loved the service since I heard of it, great to see people appreciate (from the number of API calls you guys have made so far) both the service and the small wrapper to the API!
stuaxo 12y ago
Try typing in A python stacktrace about JSON
azianmike 12y ago
wow this is really cool! how is this done?! what kind of sorcery is this?!

47 points by hackerews 12y ago

antonwinter 12y ago

what the hell, i tried a few images from unplash and it worked flawlessly. how does this magic work?

antonwinter 12y ago
i've tried maybe 30 images now. All of them it nailed. i did find one that made me laugh. it doesnt know what a goat is. http://picjumbo.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9454-1300x866.jpg http://picjumbo.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9454-1300x866.jpg ["dog", "australia", "deer", "bear", "cow", "mouflon", "lemur", "wild", "safari", "zoo"]
- acomjean 12y ago
  or a horse apparently. Did figure the jockey though... http://plocp.com/user/Aram%20Comjean//The%20Belmont%202007/images/20070609-_MG_8284.jpg http://plocp.com/user/Aram%20Comjean//The%20Belmont%202007/i... ["race", "beach", "camel", "rodeo", "jockey", "polo", "toreador", "torero", "donkey", "dog"]
vinayan3 12y ago
They must have an army of trolls who are typing in tags.

Navarr 12y ago

Tried a Pokémon card and got "semi relevant" results http://sixprizes.com/wp-content/uploads/pikachu-next-destinies-nde-39.jpg http://sixprizes.com/wp-content/uploads/pikachu-next-destini... ["background", "card", "kid", "vector", "design", "school", "book", "frame", "cartoon", "dog"]

btbuildem 12y ago

I tried a few images, for all of them "woman" was the first result (only one image had a woman in it).

tommoor 12y ago

I don't know why this link doesn't go directly to the source: http://www.clarifai.com/index.html http://www.clarifai.com/index.html

abbottry 12y ago

Facebook Logo: https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png ["cross", "sign", "plus", "pound", "medic", "first", "icon", "jesus", "christian", "aid"]

dhammack 12y ago

Very impressive! Some cool ones it recognized: milk jug http://cdn-jpg.allyou.com/sites/default/files/image/2014/01/400xvariable/i/2009/08/craft-a-birdfeeder-out-l.jpg http://cdn-jpg.allyou.com/sites/default/files/image/2014/01/... ["milk", "gallon", "jug", "product", "detergent", "plastic", "water", "soap", "canteen", "white"] mushroom cloud: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/Images/WE12.jpg http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/Images/WE12.jpg ["fire", "bomb", "mushroom", "flame", "letter", "font", "hell", "volcano", "smoke", "burn"]

adamatclarifai 12y ago

Adam from Clarifai here. As tommoor pointed out, this is just a thin wrapper around our demo at http://www.clarifai.com/ http://www.clarifai.com/ (we're very flattered...) A real API will be out soon. It won't be throttled as heavily as the demo, and will be more developer friendly. you can sign up for early beta access at clarifai.com.

dang 12y ago
We've changed the title (from "Identifying Images With an API that Actually Works") in an attempt to share the credit fairly.
hackerews 12y ago
Really well done Clarifai. From playing around, it works just as well, if not better, than google's reverse image search: https://api.blockspring.com/users/pkpp1233/blocks/5a1b66ef208007c51a45fda220dbe8db https://api.blockspring.com/users/pkpp1233/blocks/5a1b66ef20....
rememberlenny 12y ago
Can you roughly share when the developer API will be ready?
troels 12y ago
Wow. The classifier is really impressive. Will it be possible to train your own classifier on your service? I have a lot of clothing items that it would be useful to classify. I tried building my own with opencv, but I haven't had too much luck so far. I signed up for the api access - would be very interested in playing a bit more with this.
- adamatclarifai 12y ago
  Thanks! Training custom classifiers isn't in the roadmap for v1, but there will be a mechanism for providing feedback (suggesting new tags and marking errors), and we'll continue to improve our models based on that. If you have a very large (100k+ images) well-labeled repository to train from, send us a note at info@clarifai.com, we'll tawk.

robzz 12y ago

pretty impressive!

columbo 12y ago

Wow! This is really neat, I tried to find images that I didn't think it could process, the results are interesting. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Blown_up_electrolytic_capacitor.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Blown_up_... ["piranha", "fish", "food", "water", "gold", "dish", "crab", "kitchen", "glass", "silver"] https://www.flippers.com/images/See-SHFA1_Caps&Mods-PCB.JPG https://www.flippers.com/images/See-SHFA1_Caps&Mods-PCB.JPG ["panel", "retro", "wine", "background", "design", "old", "tool", "letter", "art", "robot"] http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11_lpi_trvrsmap.gif http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11_lpi_trvrsmap.gif ["background", "metal", "water", "man", "wall", "old", "abstract", "paper", "hand", "paint"]

sjtrny 12y ago

Very optimistic. Got a picture of a Hyundai. Reckons it's a BMW or Audi. http://www.airnorth.com.au/sites/default/files/Car%20hire%20-%20Budget%20Hyundai%20i30%20-%20LR.jpg http://www.airnorth.com.au/sites/default/files/Car%20hire%20... ["car", "bmw", "auto", "sport", "3d", "vector", "white", "blue", "front", "audi"]

thomasfromcdnjs 12y ago

I put in the link to my profile picture on twitter -> https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/488579015507050497/QvG1ArTx_400x400.jpeg https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/488579015507050497/QvG1... ["black", "american", "woman", "man", "pitt", "brad", "senior", "worker", "group", "cuba"] Brad Pitt! Great work guys!

nivals 12y ago

Nice! Got some interesting results from a photos of iPhones and iPads. Curious to know how this compares head-to-head with the CamFind API at https://www.mashape.com/imagesearcher/camfind https://www.mashape.com/imagesearcher/camfind which I've been thinking of using for a project.

Falling3 12y ago

Combine this with a Markov Chain and you get a nice story teller.

NKCSS 12y ago

Only car was recognised here: http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2014/05/lamborghini-aventador-galaxy-custom-dxsc-0.jpg http://www.highsnobiety.com/files/2014/05/lamborghini-aventa...

orliesaurus 12y ago

Well this went better than I expected :) EDIT: context- I'm the one that made the wrapper for clarifai's API, loved the service since I heard of it, great to see people appreciate (from the number of API calls you guys have made so far) both the service and the small wrapper to the API!

stuaxo 12y ago

Try typing in A python stacktrace about JSON

azianmike 12y ago

wow this is really cool! how is this done?! what kind of sorcery is this?!