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IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)

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What is IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued)?

IBM's Watson Visual Recognition was a machine learning application designed to tag and classify image data, and deployable for a wide variety of purposes. The service was discontinued in early 2021, and is no longer available.

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What users are saying about IBM Watson Visual Recognition (discontinued).
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IBM Watson Visual Recognition is excellent

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking for a visual recognition service to integrate into our app to help the user with their nutrition and health. The user just needed to use the service offered by IBM and then our algorithms would process the data received. IBM Watson Visual Recognition proved to be up to the task by making our app achieve its purpose with great success.

Pros

  • Food recognition
  • High reliability
  • Speed

Cons

  • Documentation sometimes not complete

Most Important Features

  • Easy to use
  • Speed
  • Pre-trained templates

Return on Investment

  • High cost if models are trained

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Cloud Code Engine, IBM Cloud Foundry

Overview on Watson Visual Recogniton

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to use interface, you can just drag and drop the images in the negative and positive dropboxes to train.
  • It's affordable and there is a free version to test for yourself and check if it's useful for you.
  • Easy to integrate with apps using one single API key and you can train easily with your terminal.

Cons

  • Not perfect
  • Accuracy is doubted and sometimes it may not predict correctly.
  • I think it should be improved and should add a few more functionalities.

Return on Investment

  • Its affordable and can be employed in small apps.
  • The free version enables us to use it in our less trafficked web apps and in the future, you may switch to the standard version from premium.
  • Overall performance will be berated as average.

Usability