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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By : Leif Larsen
Book Image

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for integrating artificial intelligence in your applications to solve logical business problems. If you’re new to developing applications with AI, Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services will give you a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft’s AI stack and get you up-to-speed in no time. The book introduces you to 24 APIs, including Emotion, Language, Vision, Speech, Knowledge, and Search. Using Visual Studio, you can develop applications with enhanced capabilities for image processing, speech recognition, text processing, and much more. Moving forward, you will work with datasets that enable your applications to process various data in the form of image, video, or text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to confidently explore Cognitive Services APIs for building intelligent applications that can be deployed for real-world business uses.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Index

Diving into Video Indexer


Video Indexer is a service that allows you to upload videos and gain insights from the videos that you upload. These insights can be used to make videos (and by extension your content) more discoverable. They can also be used to improve user engagement.

General overview

Using artificial intelligence technologies, Video Indexer enables you to extract a great deal of information. It can gain insights from the following list of features:

  • Audio transcript, with language detection

  • Creation of closed captions

  • Noise reduction

  • Face tracking and identification

  • Speaker indexing

  • Visual-text recognition

  • Voice-activity detection

  • Scene detection

  • Keyframe extraction

  • Sentiment analysis

  • Translation

  • Visual-content moderation

  • Keyword extraction

  • Annotations

  • Detection of brands

  • Object and action labeling

  • Textual-content moderation

  • Emotion detection

Typical scenarios

The following list shows a few typical scenarios where one might want to use Video Indexer:

  • Search: If you have a library of videos, you can...