Cloud Vision API with Ram Ramanathan

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:00:26 +0000

<p>In the ninth episode of this podcast and first of 2016, your hosts <a href="http://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> interview <a href="https://twitter.com/ramramanathan1">Ram Ramanathan</a>. Ram is the product manager for Google Cloud Vision API.</p> <h5 id="about-ram">About Ram</h5> <p>Ram Ramanathan joined Google in 2014 where he’s been working on leading the machine learning efforts for Google Cloud Platform, and  has been a large part of launching the new Google Cloud Vision API. He comes with a great deal  of experience in the industry after working for other big players such as GE Healthcare and Microsoft.</p> <p>You can follow him on twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ramramanathan1">@ramramanathan1</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li> <p>Top 5 Power Features of the Google Cloud CLI (<a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/01/top-5-power-features-of-google-cloud-cli.html">blog post</a>)<br /> <img alt="gcloud autocomplete" src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/gcloud-autocomplete.gif" /></p> </li> <li> <p>Get your current project id using gcloud:<br /> <code>gcloud config list core/project | awk '{print \$3}'</code></p> <p>After the recording we were informed that there’s a better way using <a href="https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/">formats</a>:<br /> <code>gcloud config list --format="value(core.project)"</code></p> </li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images <a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/12/Google-Cloud-Vision-API-changes-the-way-applications-understand-images.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Vision API <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision/">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Vision robot demo <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eve8DkkVdhI">video</a></li> <li>Tensorflow <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/">homepage</a></li> <li>Mobile Vision SDK <a href="https://developers.google.com/vision/?hl=en">docs</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Storage Access Control <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control?hl=en">docs</a></li> <li>Google Cloud Storage Signed URLs <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control?hl=en#Signed-URLs"> docs</a></li> </ul>