Cloud Vision API with Ram Ramanathan

In the ninth episode of this podcast and first of 2016, your hosts Francesc and Mark interview Ram Ramanathan. Ram is the product manager for Google Cloud Vision API.

About Ram

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.

You can follow him on twitter at @ramramanathan1.

Cool thing of the week

• Top 5 Power Features of the Google Cloud CLI (blog post)
  

• Get your current project id using gcloud:
  gcloud config list core/project | awk '{print \$3}'

  After the recording we were informed that there's a better way using formats:
  gcloud config list --format="value(core.project)"

Interview

• Google Cloud Vision API changes the way applications understand images blog
• Google Cloud Vision API docs
• Google Cloud Vision robot demo video
• Tensorflow homepage
• Mobile Vision SDK docs

Question of the week

• Google Cloud Storage Access Control docs
• Google Cloud Storage Signed URLs docs