VMX API for Object Detection in Images

vmx_detect.sh

#!/bin/sh 
#
# A simple command line utility to send an image to VMX For this
# example to work, make sure the VMX variable points to the location
# of your server.
#
# Tom Malisiewicz [email protected]
# vision.ai 2015

#The location of the VMX server
VMX=http://localhost:3000
#VMX=https://demo.vision.ai

#Make sure we have two command line arguments
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 model_name image_url" >&2
  exit
fi

#Check to make sure VMX is up and running
if [ "`curl -s $VMX | grep vmxAppBuilder | wc -l`" -eq 0 ]; then
    echo Cannot find VMX at $VMX
    echo Please edit the \$VMX variable
    exit
fi

NAME=$1
#URL=$2
URL="data:image/jpeg;base64,"`base64 $2`

#Get the UUID for the desired model
UUID=`curl -s $VMX/model | jq -r '.data[] | select(.name=="'$NAME'") .uuid'`

if [ -z $UUID ]; then
    echo "Cannot find model named" $NAME
    echo "Available models:" `curl -s $VMX/model | jq -r '.data[] .name'`
    exit
fi

#Check if we already have a session running with the desired model
SESSIONID=`curl -s $VMX/session | jq -r '.data[] | select(.model.name=="'$NAME'").id'`

if [ -z $SESSIONID ]; then
    # Start a new session if we didn't find one
    SESSIONID=`curl -s -X POST -d '{"uuids":["'$UUID'"]}' $VMX/session | jq -r .data.id`
fi

#Send the image to the session to return detections
curl -s -X POST -d '{"images":[{"image":"'$URL'"}]}' $VMX/session/$SESSIONID