The company’s push into machine intelligence rolls on, as other Einstein features based on machine learning techniques go live
Salesforce is getting into the computer vision business with a new tool designed to let users easily train a custom image recognition system.
Einstein Vision , as it’s known, allows users to upload sets of images and classify them in a series of categories. After that, the system will create a recognizer based on machine learning technology that will identify future images fed into it.
While Salesforce customers will have to wait a couple weeks before Vision is generally available, the company announced Tuesday that other Einstein features based on machine learning techniques are live.
It’s the latest step in a long journey for Salesforce, which began touting Einstein last year and demoed those capabilities at its Dreamforce conference. The company is facing heavy competition, and Einstein might give it an edge against the likes of Microsoft and Oracle.
The Einstein Vision APIs will allow customers to do things like create applications that know how to recognize different brands in photographs, or know how to spot pitched roofs versus flat ones. Developers can then take that custom recognizer and build it into applications.
