Detect crop hints

Crop Hints suggests vertices for a crop region on an image.

Image before crop
Image credit: Yasmin Dangor on Unsplash (original and cropped image shown).

Crop hint applied (2:1 ratio):

Image after crop

Crop hint detection requests

Set up your Google Cloud project and authentication

Detect crop hints on a local image

You can use the Vision API to perform feature detection on a local image file.

For REST requests, send the contents of the image file as a base64 encoded string in the body of your request.

For gcloud and client library requests, specify the path to a local image in your request.

REST

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

  • BASE64_ENCODED_IMAGE: The base64 representation (ASCII string) of your binary image data. This string should look similar to the following string:
    • /9j/4QAYRXhpZgAA...9tAVx/zDQDlGxn//2Q==
    Visit the base64 encode topic for more information.
  • PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID.

Field-specific considerations:

  • cropHintsParams.aspectRatios - A float that corresponds to your specified ratio(s) for your images (width:height). You can supply up to 16 crop ratios.

HTTP method and URL: 

POST https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate

Request JSON body: 

{
  "requests": [
    {
      "image": {
        "content": "BASE64_ENCODED_IMAGE"
      },
      "features": [
        {
          "type": "CROP_HINTS"
        }
      ],
      "imageContext": {
        "cropHintsParams": {
          "aspectRatios": [
             2.0
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

To send your request, choose one of these options:

curl

Save the request body in a file named request.json, and execute the following command: 

curl -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     -H "x-goog-user-project: PROJECT_ID" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     -d @request.json \
     "https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate"

PowerShell

Save the request body in a file named request.json, and execute the following command: 

$cred = gcloud auth print-access-token
$headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer $cred"; "x-goog-user-project" = "PROJECT_ID" }

Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Method POST `
    -Headers $headers `
    -ContentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8" `
    -InFile request.json `
    -Uri "https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate" | Select-Object -Expand Content

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and the response in JSON format.

Response: 

{
  "responses": [
    {
      "cropHintsAnnotation": {
        "cropHints": [
          {
            "boundingPoly": {
              "vertices": [
                {
                  "y": 520
                },
                {
                  "x": 2369,
                  "y": 520
                },
                {
                  "x": 2369,
                  "y": 1729
                },
                {
                  "y": 1729
                }
              ]
            },
            "confidence": 0.79999995,
            "importanceFraction": 0.66999996
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

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. 


// detectCropHints gets suggested croppings the Vision API for an image at the given file path.
func detectCropHints(w io.Writer, file string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

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

	f, err := os.Open(file)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer f.Close()

	image, err := vision.NewImageFromReader(f)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	res, err := client.