Google Cloud Vision Object Detection Alternatives

Google Cloud Vision's object detection API enables you to identify objects in images without prior training. Below, we list a series of alternatives that you can use to identify objects in images and videos.

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Multimodal Model
Multimodal Model
Multimodal Model
Multimodal Model

Model Size:

4000000000.0

MB

Parameters:

3 Billion

Architecture:

PaliGemma is a vision language model (VLM) by Google that has multimodal capabilities. Learn more »

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Multimodal Model
Multimodal Model
Multimodal Model
Multimodal Model

Model Size:

MB

Parameters:

Architecture:

Gemini is a family of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) developed by Google Deepmind focused specifically on multimodality. Learn more »

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Object Detection
Object Detection
Object Detection
Object Detection

Model Size:

MB

Parameters:

Architecture:

DocTR is an Optical Character Recognition tool powered by deep learning. Learn more »

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Object Detection
Object Detection
Object Detection
Object Detection

Model Size:

68200000.0

MB

Parameters:

Architecture:

YOLO, CNN

YOLOv8 is a state-of-the-art object detection and image segmentation model created by Ultralytics, the developers of YOLOv5. Learn more »

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Classification
Classification
Classification
Classification

Model Size:

MB

Parameters:

428000000.0

Architecture:

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is an impressive multimodal zero-shot image classifier that achieves impressive results in a wide range of domains with no fine-tuning. It applies the recent advancements in large-scale transformers like GPT-3 to the vision arena. Learn more »

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