c-grigsby / computer-vision-backend

Server-side application for the computer vision app

Computer Vision Backend

This server-side application is the back end to the Computer Vision application

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Project Description

• Developed within Express
• REST API for interaction to the Azure A.I. Platform
• ML Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Image Analysis
  • Describes what main objects or themes are present within an image with confidence score
  • Detects faces and returns the gender, age & location of face (bounding box)
  • Returns the objects identified within an image
• Middleware async handler

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Getting Started

• Installing dependencies

$ npm install

• To run the development server

$ npm run dev

This application utilizes a config.env file to host environment variables. To utilize configure:

• NODE_ENV=development
• PORT
• AZURE_KEY
• AZURE_ENDPOINT