Getting Started with Azure Cognitive Services – Computer Vision
Getting Started with Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) services that help developers add cognitive intelligence to their apps without having to know much about AI or data science. Azure Cognitive Services offer a set of machine learning–based APIs that are already built and hosted in Azure. These APIs are called Azure REST APIs. With these Azure Cognitive Services APIs and services, it’s easy to add intelligent features like face recognition, voice recognition, emotion and sentiment detection, vision and speech recognition, knowledge search, and language understanding to the web, mobile, and desktop applications. These APIs are cross-platform and device independent.
Benefits of Cognitive Services
Before we start talking about the different Azure Cognitive Services, let’s talk about why you might want to use them:
1. More gain with less strain: No previous skill is required to use Azure Cognitive Services. Anyone can avail of the benefits of these services at the expense of a single API call and pretrained AI models. You can add Azure Cognitive Services capabilities to your application with just a single API call and pretrained AI models.
2. Creating a good user experience: Azure has a content moderator and a personalizer to improve the user experience by removing any inappropriate content, keeping data safe, and giving users new experiences.
3. Cross-platform support: The agile compatibility of Azure with any and all operating systems makes it easier for anyone to incorporate its services into their applications written in nearly any language, including C#, Python, Java, Node.js, etc.
4. Use deeper insights: The computer vision, custom vision, face, form, and ink recognition engines included in the vision API will assist you in gaining more in-depth insights from any type of document containing text, whether that document is an image containing a variety of objects, an invoice, or a face. In addition, the ink recognition engine will help you identify handwriting.
