However, with Bing Image Search, we have an option to specify what license the images has that get returned to us. If they find out we use their image without a license or permission then they can, more than likely, take legal action against us.

A lot of images that are online are copyrighted and if we don't have a license to use the copyright we are actually in violation of the creator's copyright. We can't always just take an image from a website and use it however we want. Rather than manually finding images and downloading them, we can use the Bing Image Search API to do this for us. I'll be honest, I'm lazy and if I can script something to do a task for me then I'll definitely spend the time to build the script rather than do the task manually. Some of these features are important to take into account. Why not just download the images ourselves?īing Images Search has a few features in it that we can utilize in our code when getting our images. We'd need quite a bit of different images for this model, so let's use the Bing Image Search to gather images of the Aston-Martin car so we can start getting our data.Ĭheck out the below for a video version of this post.īefore going into the technical side of Bing Image Search, let's go over why use this in the first place. Let's suppose we need to make an image classification model to determine what kind of car is in an image.

While they have a nice wrapper for the API, I thought I'd dive into the API as well and use it to build my own way to download training image data.

When going through the FastAI book, Deep Learning for Coders, I noticed that in one of the early chapters they mention using the Bing Image Search API to retrieve images for training data.

Bing image search