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The IBM WatsonVisual Recognition service analyzes the visual content of images and videos to understand the scene without any input text describing

1. Create a Bluemix Account

Follow these instruction to sign up for a new IBM Buemix account, or use an existing account. Watson Services in Beta are free to use.

2. Download and install theCloud-foundry CLI tools

3. Edit themanifest.yml file and change the<application-name> to something unique.

applications:- services:- visual-recognition-servicename: <application-name>command: node app.jspath: .memory: 128M

The name you use will determinate your application url initially, e.g.<application-name>.mybluemix.net.

4. Connect to Bluemix in the command line tool

$ cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net$ cf login -u<your user ID>

5. Create the Visual Recognition service in Bluemix

$ cf create-service visual_recognition free visual-recognition-service

6. Push it live!

$ cf push<your topcoder handle>-fun-watson

See the fullGetting Started documentation for more details, including code snippets and references.

The application usesNode.js andnpm so it assumes you already have it installed. If not, use the above link to install node and npm.

1. Copy the credentials from yourvisual-recognition-service service in Bluemix toapp.js, you can see the credentials using:

   $ cf env<application-name>

   Example output:

   System-Provided:{"VCAP_SERVICES": {"visual_recognition": [{"credentials": {"url":"<url>","password":"<password>","username":"<username>"      },"label":"visual_recognition","name":"visual-recognition-service","plan":"free" }]}}

   You need to copyusername andpassword.

2. Go to the project folder in a terminal and run:npm install

3. Start the application withnode app.js

4. Openhttp://localhost:3000

To troubleshoot your Bluemix app the main useful source of information are the logs, to see them, run:

$ cf logs<application-name> --recent

This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available inLICENSE.