Watson Visual Recognition

This is a “landing page” for Watson Visual Recognition. Look here for links to high value technical content specific for this service.

References for Further Reading

• Visual Recognition API Reference - The API reference page.
• Visual Recognition Command Line Interface - doing training and classification can be easier from the command line.
• Sharpen Watson Visual Recognition Results - Great blog by Andy Trice, his blog explains how to use “tile localization” to help your classifiers find details in images, and includes the code for doing this on GitHub, which will run on IBM Cloud as-is.
• Guidelines for Training Custom Classifiers - some basic guidance on training custom classifiers from the online documentation.
• Visual Recognition Redbook - A large document with some best practices and some example use cases using Visual Recognition. Very big, lots of details.
• Chihuahua or Muffin Revisited - one of our all time favorite funny demos, that trains a visual classifier to detect dogs or food.

Code

• Visual Recgnition with ASP.NET - Simple starter application in ASP.NET which uses the IBM Watson Visual Recognition service.