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MICROSOFT COMPUTER VISION APIS DISTILLED - ALES...

Dive headfirst into Microsoft's Computer Vision APIs through sample-driven scenarios! Imagine
an app that describes to the visually impaired the objects around them  or reads the Sunday
paper  a favorite magazine  or a street sign. Or an app that is capable of monitoring what is
happening inside an area without human control  and then makes a decision based on interpreting
an occurrence detected with a live camera. This book teaches developers Microsoft's Computer
Vision APIs  a service capable of understanding and interpreting the content of any image.
Author Del Sole begins by providing a succinct need to know overview of the service with
descriptions. You then learn from hands-on demonstrations that show how basic C# code examples
can be re-used across platforms. From there you will be guided through two different kinds of
applications that interact with the service in two different ways: the more common means of
calling a REST service to get back JSON data  and via the .NET libraries that Microsoft has
been building to simplify the job (this latter one with Xamarin). What You'll Learn Understand
AI's role and how devices and applications use sophisticated algorithms to improve people's
lives and business tasks. Analyze images for Optical Character Recognition to detect written
words and sentences Think about the next-generation applications in relation to your customers'
needs Get up-to-speed on the latest version of the Computer Vision service  which now comes
through Azure Set up an Azure subscription in order to access the Cognitive Services within the
portal After reading this book  you will be able to get started with AI services from Microsoft
in order to begin building powerful new apps for your company or customers. Who This Book Is
For Developers just getting familiar with artificial intelligence. A minimal knowledge of C# is
required.

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