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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

Unlocking video insights using Video Indexer


In this section, we will look at how to use Video Indexer.

How to use Video Indexer

We are going to take a quick look at how you can utilize Video Indexer.

Through a web portal

To use the prebuilt Video Indexer tool from Microsoft, head over to https://vi.microsoft.com/. Sign up or log in with your Microsoft account. When you have signed in, you will be asked to register the account by filling out some information, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once you have logged in, you will find yourself at a dashboard, as shown in the following screenshot:

To get started, you can upload your videos by clicking on Upload. This will open a popup that you can use to either upload a video or enter a URL to a video. Alternatively, you can get started quickly by selecting a sample video by clicking on Sample Videos in the menu.

When you have chosen a video, or when the video you have uploaded has completed its indexing, you will be taken to a page to see the insights...