Pretrained computer vision classifier

Identify house presence with one API call.

A pretrained house presence classifier that sorts an image into one of 2 categories. Use the house presence API immediately, no training required, then adapt it to your own data when you need more.

Pretrained · Nyckel-trained 2 labels out of the box Image input

Try the house presence classifier

Drop in a photo and get the prediction back. No signup, no setup.

What this house presence classifier recognizes

A sample of the 2 labels this pretrained classifier chooses between.

House Present
House Not Present

Need a label that isn't here? Clone the classifier into your Nyckel console and edit the label set to fit your data.

Call the house presence API

Once you've added this classifier to your console, you get your own copy of it behind your own endpoint. Invoke it with any HTTP client:

curl

curl -X POST "https://www.nyckel.com/v1/functions/YOUR_FUNCTION_ID/invoke" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NYCKEL_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"data": "https://example.com/photo.jpg"}'

Python

import requests

# Get an access token: https://www.nyckel.com/docs/api/overview/authentication/
token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"

response = requests.post(
    "https://www.nyckel.com/v1/functions/YOUR_FUNCTION_ID/invoke",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + token},
    json={"data": "https://example.com/photo.jpg"},
)
print(response.json())

Example response

{
  "labelName": "House Present",
  "labelId": "label_...",
  "confidence": 0.92
}

Under the hood

Model type
Nyckel-trained

Trained on a Nyckel-curated dataset covering 2 house presence categories, served on Nyckel's own infrastructure — your image stays on Nyckel.

Input
Image

Send an image URL or file to the invoke endpoint; the response is a label with a confidence score.

Make it yours
Adaptable

Clone it, then correct predictions and add your own samples in the console — Nyckel retrains automatically, turning this into a custom model tuned to your data.

More than a demo: this page is one of thousands of pretrained functions on Nyckel, an ML classification platform. You can invoke classifiers by API, review predictions, correct labels, collect samples from production traffic, and promote any pretrained function to a private custom model — without changing your integration.

Where teams use house presence classification

Real Estate Classification

Real estate companies can use the 'house presence' function to streamline their property database. It can automatically classify whether their listed images have a house or not, reducing the need for manual checking and saving time.

Satellite Imaging Analysis

Firms specializing in satellite imaging can use the function to determine the presence of houses in large-scale images quickly. This can be useful in various fields such as city planning, disaster management, and population density studies.

Home Delivery Service

A home delivery service can use the 'house presence' function to verify the legitimacy of an address by crosschecking it with a satellite image, ensuring that a house does exist at the given address before dispatch.

Insurance Claim Verification

Insurance companies can use this function to verify the existence of property during claim processing, helping to identify fraudulent claims and saving investigation time.

Route Planning for Transportation Services

Logistics and transportation services can use this function to verify residential areas for route planning. This ensures the route includes areas only where houses are present to optimize delivery.

Virtual Map Systems

Companies that provide virtual map systems such as Google Maps can use 'house presence' to identify and flag discrepancies in their data and to keep the databases updated.

Common questions

What's the difference between a zero-shot and a Nyckel-trained classifier?

A zero-shot classifier uses a large foundation model's general knowledge to pick between your labels — no task-specific training, so new or edited labels work immediately. A Nyckel-trained classifier has been trained on labeled examples and runs on Nyckel's own infrastructure, which typically makes it faster, cheaper per call, and more accurate on data that resembles its training set. The "Under the hood" section on this page shows which kind this classifier is, and any classifier can be adapted into a trained one by adding your own examples.

How do I know whether this will work for my application?

Honestly: we can't know in advance — it depends on your data stream and how closely it resembles what this classifier has seen. The reliable way to find out is to measure it on your own data: start invoking the classifier with real traffic, or upload and annotate a set of images in the console — make sure they look like your production data, not idealized examples. Nyckel's evaluation metrics then show you exactly how it performs on that data before you rely on it.

What happens when it makes a mistake?

No classifier is perfect, so Nyckel is built around the correction loop: invokes can be captured for review, you confirm or correct predictions in the console, and corrections become training data. Over time the model adapts to your data distribution — accuracy on your traffic improves with use rather than staying fixed.

Do I need training data to get started?

No. This house presence classifier works out of the box — clone it into your console and you'll have your own API endpoint in under a minute. Training data only enters the picture when you want to adapt it: your corrected predictions and uploaded samples improve the model, and you can also edit the label set to match your needs.

What does it cost to try?

Trying the classifier on this page is free with no signup. Cloning it requires a free account, and the free tier covers your first API calls each month — see nyckel.com/pricing for current limits and paid tiers.

Ready to classify house presence at scale?

Add this pretrained classifier to your Nyckel console — you'll get a live API endpoint in under a minute, and a path to a custom model when you need one.