How to do it...

The code for this recipe takes an image file and verifies whether the image has a face and that it isn't a spoofed image. It makes two calls to the Vision API to determine this:

  1. After cloning the source code of the book, navigate to the Chapter05/vision-api folder.
  2. To execute the program in an isolated environment, create a virtualenv and install the dependent packages:
$ virtualenv ENV$ source ENV/bin/activate$ pip install -r requirements.txt

The following is the contents of the requirements.txt file:

google-cloud-storage==1.7.0google-cloud-vision==0.30.0Pillow==5.0.0
  1. The following is the program which invokes the Vision API:
  1. The client libraries are imported. We'll use the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to pass images ...

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