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Object Detection API

The Object Detection API provides fast and accurate image object recognition using advanced neural networks developed by machine learning experts.

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/v1/objectdetection POST

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/objectdetection

Given an input image, return a list of detected objects labels, confidence percentages and bounding boxes. Objects with confidence less than 0.3 (30%) are filtered out.

Files

  • image  required

    Image file. Must be either JPEG or PNG format and smaller than 2000 by 2000.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Response

Returns an array of object detection objects, each containing:

  • label

    The detected object class or label (e.g., "person", "car", "dog").

  • confidence

    Confidence score between 0 and 1, indicating how certain the detection is.

  • x

    The x-coordinate of the top-left corner of the bounding box.

  • y

    The y-coordinate of the top-left corner of the bounding box.

  • width

    Width of the bounding box in pixels.

  • height

    Height of the bounding box in pixels.

Sample Request Live Demo!

Try this API endpoint with all available parameters in our API playground

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/objectdetection

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
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Code Examples

1 2 3 curl -X POST "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/objectdetection" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \ -F "image=@YOUR_IMAGE.jpeg"

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.