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Discussion on: How to Use Computer Vision to Automatically Filter Images

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Mazen Ezzeddine

Are the APIs free? what is the cost/image? how many image/sec at what latency? can it support real time video?

Is it better (energy, latency, throughput) to do the classification on the device using or use cloud APIs

Thanks.

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Jason Skowronski

The first 1000 images/mo are free which you can see on Google's pricing page cloud.google.com/vision/pricing. I think the vision API is designed for images but you can submit stills from your videos. The GCP platform is fairly scalable can handle high volumes of requests. For a social media use case like this one you'd want to do filtering server side to prevent cases where people try to bypass on-device filtering.