Microsoft Cognitive Services for Developers: 1 Vision

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Free Online Course: Microsoft Cognitive Services for Developers: 1 Vision provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Microsoft Cognitive Services for Developers: 1 Vision is taught by Sahil Malik.

Overview
  • Learn how to use Microsoft Cognitive Services to embed AI in your applications. This course covers the vision APIs for text, image, and facial recognition.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you should know
    • Using the exercise files
    1. The Basics
    • Introduction
    • Set up the Node.js project
    • Add TypeScript debugging support
    • Add helper code and demonstrate debugging
    2. Describing, Categorizing, and Tagging
    • Provision Vision API in Azure and configure project
    • Write code to describe an image using the Vision API
    • Run the code to describe an image using the Vision API
    • Returning multiple descriptions
    • Defining the analysis business object
    • Writing the analyze method
    • Using the analyze method to describe an image
    • Tags and categories
    3. Performing Deeper Analysis
    • Analyzing colors
    • Identifying line drawing and clip art vs. real pictures
    • Identifying adult vs. racy content
    • Generating thumbnails
    4. Working with Models
    • Recognizing celebrities
    • Recognizing landmarks
    5. Handwriting and OCR
    • Set up the Node.js project
    • Submit an image for handwriting or OCR
    • Polling for status of submitted image
    • Synchronous treatment for OCR
    • Performing OCR
    • Performing handwriting recognition
    6. Working with Faces
    • Recognize faces using the Vision API
    • Provision the Emotion API and update the project
    • Making code changes to analyze emotions
    • Recognizing emotions for multiple pictures
    • Provision the Face API and update the project
    7. Identifying People
    • Recognizing faces: The theory
    • Set up your project
    • Set up your sample dataset
    • Read the dataset
    • Organize your code and explain what you need to do
    • Create a person group
    • Delete or train the person group
    • Create a person and add a face
    • Add detection and identification functions
    • Create a person group using helper classes
    • Train a person group
    • Detecting and identifying a person
    • Run code and delete the person group
    Conclusion
    • Next steps