As we saw in Chapter 1, Introduction to Machine Learning on Mobile, we know that machine learning in mobile applications can be implemented either on-device or it can be implemented using machine learning cloud provider services. There are various machine learning cloud providers:

• Clarifai
• Google Cloud Vision
• Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
• IBM Watson
• Amazon Machine Learning

In this chapter, we are going to dive deeply into Google Cloud Vision to understand the following:

• Features of Google Cloud Vision
• How to utilize the Google Cloud Vision label-detection technique in an Android Mobile application to determine what is the picture taken by the camera. That is, we basically feed an image into Google Cloud Vision and see how it labels the image. Google Vision is going to predict the image that it receives from the mobile application and provide a label for the image.