Detect multiple objects in a Cloud Storage file.

Perform object detection for multiple objects in an image on a file stored in Cloud Storage.

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Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vision, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.


// localizeObjects gets objects and bounding boxes from the Vision API for an image at the given file path.
func localizeObjectsURI(w io.Writer, file string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	client, err := vision.NewImageAnnotatorClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	image := vision.NewImageFromURI(file)
	annotations, err := client.LocalizeObjects(ctx, image, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if len(annotations) == 0 {
		fmt.Fprintln(w, "No objects found.")
		return nil
	}

	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Objects:")
	for _, annotation := range annotations {
		fmt.Fprintln(w, annotation.Name)
		fmt.Fprintln(w, annotation.Score)

		for _, v := range annotation.BoundingPoly.NormalizedVertices {
			fmt.Fprintf(w, "(%f,%f)\n", v.X, v.Y)
		}
	}

	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vision, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

/**
 * Detects localized objects in a remote image on Google Cloud Storage.
 *
 * @param gcsPath The path to the remote file on Google Cloud Storage to detect localized objects
 *     on.
 * @throws Exception on errors while closing the client.
 * @throws IOException on Input/Output errors.
 */
public static void detectLocalizedObjectsGcs(String gcsPath) throws IOException {
  List<AnnotateImageRequest> requests = new ArrayList<>();

  ImageSource imgSource = ImageSource.newBuilder().setGcsImageUri(gcsPath).build();
  Image img = Image.newBuilder().setSource(imgSource).build();

  AnnotateImageRequest request =
      AnnotateImageRequest.newBuilder()
          .addFeatures(Feature.newBuilder().setType(Type.OBJECT_LOCALIZATION))
          .setImage(img)
          .build();
  requests.add(request);

  // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
  // once, and can be reused for multiple requests. After completing all of your requests, call
  // the "close" method on the client to safely clean up any remaining background resources.
  try (ImageAnnotatorClient client = ImageAnnotatorClient.create()) {
    // Perform the request
    BatchAnnotateImagesResponse response = client.batchAnnotateImages(requests);
    List<AnnotateImageResponse> responses = response.getResponsesList();
    client.close();
    // Display the results
    for (AnnotateImageResponse res : responses) {
      for (LocalizedObjectAnnotation entity : res.getLocalizedObjectAnnotationsList()) {
        System.out.format("Object name: %s%n", entity.getName());
        System.out.format("Confidence: %s%n", entity.getScore());
        System.out.format("Normalized Vertices:%n");
        entity
            .getBoundingPoly()
            .getNormalizedVerticesList()
            .forEach(vertex -> System.out.format("- (%s, %s)%n", vertex.getX(), vertex.getY()));
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vision, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Imports the Google Cloud client libraries
const vision = require('@google-cloud/vision');

// Creates a client
const client = new vision.ImageAnnotatorClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following line before running the sample.
 */
// const gcsUri = `gs://bucket/bucketImage.png`;

const [result] = await client.objectLocalization(gcsUri);
const objects = result.localizedObjectAnnotations;
objects.forEach(object => {
  console.log(`Name: ${object.name}`);
  console.log(`Confidence: ${object.score}`);
  const veritices = object.boundingPoly.normalizedVertices;
  veritices.forEach(v => console.log(`x: ${v.x}, y:${v.y}`));
});

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vision, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

namespace Google\Cloud\Samples\Vision;

use Google\Cloud\Vision\V1\ImageAnnotatorClient;

/**
 * @param string $path GCS path to the image, e.g. "gs://path/to/your/image.jpg"
 */
function detect_object_gcs(string $path)
{
    $imageAnnotator = new ImageAnnotatorClient();

    # annotate the image
    $response = $imageAnnotator->objectLocalization($path);
    $objects = $response->getLocalizedObjectAnnotations();

    foreach ($objects as $object) {
        $name = $object->getName();
        $score = $object->getScore();
        $vertices = $object->getBoundingPoly()->getNormalizedVertices();

        printf('%s (confidence %d)):' . PHP_EOL, $name, $score);
        print('normalized bounding polygon vertices: ');
        foreach ($vertices as $vertex) {
            printf(' (%d, %d)', $vertex->getX(), $vertex->getY());
        }
        print(PHP_EOL);
    }

    $imageAnnotator->close();
}

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Vision, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def localize_objects_uri(uri):
    """Localize objects in the image on Google Cloud Storage

    Args:
    uri: The path to the file in Google Cloud Storage (gs://...)
    """
    from google.cloud import vision

    client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()

    image = vision.Image()
    image.source.image_uri = uri

    objects = client.object_localization(image=image).localized_object_annotations

    print(f"Number of objects found: {len(objects)}")
    for object_ in objects:
        print(f"\n{object_.name} (confidence: {object_.score})")
        print("Normalized bounding polygon vertices: ")
        for vertex in object_.bounding_poly.normalized_vertices:
            print(f" - ({vertex.x}, {vertex.y})")

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