Build an Image Captioning Tool for Visually Impaired Users with Gemini

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Build an Image Captioning Tool for Visually Impaired Users with Gemini. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

When you’re designing for the web, it’s imperative that your designs are accessible to as many people as possible, and this includes visually impaired users. While there are many tools available to help you in this design task, artificial intelligence is making this easier than ever. In this course, software developer Fikayo Adepoju shows you how to use Google’s Gemini API to build an image caption generator that helps visually impaired users to better experience the web. Get hands-on experience with the Gemini API as Fikayo guides you through the building of the application from start to finish. Learn how to build the interface, connect the backend to Gemini, and then connect the frontend to the API. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or just have an interest in AI, join Fikayo to see how the Gemini API can make life easier for both you and your users.

See the readme file in the main branch for updated instructions and information.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Instructor

Fikayo Adepoju

Technical Writer | Software Developer

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