Ask HN: Image Recognition APIs / Libraries for iOS

1 points by desigooner 15y ago ↗ HN

Me and my friend are starting to work on an idea as a way to get into mobile development. We wanted to incorporate an image search like Meal Snap or Snooth Wine Pro for some specific products.

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction w.r.t. papers, libraries or APIs that could be used for image recognition (iOS as well as Android platform).

I looked at Tineye but I find their costs to be prohibitive for a side project.

Thanks

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seats 15y ago ↗

I've used Intel's image libs on other platforms and found them to be excellent.

No idea how well it works on ios, but according to wikipedia it's supported-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV

instakill 15y ago ↗

Face.com, the creators of Phototagger and Photofinder Facebook applications, offers a free face recognition API for photos.