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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

Automatically moderating user content


Using the content moderator API, we can add monitoring to user-generated content. The API is created to assist with flags and to assess and filter offensive and unwanted content.

Types of content moderation APIs

We will quickly go through the key features of the moderation APIs in this section.

Note

A reference to the documentation for all APIs can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/nb-no/azure/cognitive-services/content-moderator/api-reference.

Image moderation

The image moderation API allows you to moderate images for adult and inappropriate content. It can also extract textual content and detect faces in images.

When using the API to evaluate inappropriate content, the API will take an image as input. Based on the image, it will return a Boolean value, indicating whether the image is appropriate or not. It will also contain a corresponding confidence score between 0 and 1. The Boolean value is set based on a set of default thresholds.

If the image contains...