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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
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Google Cloud AI Services Quick Start Guide

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

<p>Cognitive services are the new way of adding intelligence to applications and services. Now we can use Artificial Intelligence as a service that can be consumed by any application or other service, to add smartness and make the end result more practical and useful.</p> <p>Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API.  Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.</p> <p>This book will help you build a Smart Exchange, a forum application that will let you upload videos, images and perform text to speech conversions and translation services. You will use the power of Google Cloud AI Services to make our simple forum application smart by validating the images, videos, and text provided by users to Google Cloud AI Services and make sure the content which is uploaded follows the forum standards, without a human curator involvement.</p> <p>You will learn how to work with the Vision API, Video Intelligence API, Speech Recognition API, Cloud Language Process, and Cloud Translation API services to make your application smarter.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have a strong understanding of working with Google Cloud AI Services, and be well on the way to building smarter applications.</p>
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Video Intelligence API

Google Video Intelligence API is one of the machine learning services exposed under the Cloud AI vertical. This service is used to analyze a video and its contents using machine learning models.

This service can:

  • Gather insights from 20,000 labels
  • Search video catalogues
  • Distinguish scenes using shot detection

Some of the best use cases for this API are:

  • Content recommendation
  • Content moderation
  • Contextual advertisements
  • Searchable media archives

Using this API, we can detect the following:

  • Label detection: From a given video, identify various items/things present in the video
  • Explicit Content Detection: Detect adult content in a video, along with the position of occurance
  • Shot Change detection: Detect scene changes in a video
  • Video Transcription ALPHA: Transcribe the video content into English
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