Microsoft Computer Vision APIs Distilled: Getting Started with Cognitive Services [Paperback]

Dive headfirst into Microsofts 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 Youll Learn

• Understand AIs role and how devices and applications use sophisticated algorithms to improve peoples 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 ablSé