Microsoft Del Sole, Alessandro Microsoft Computer Vision APIs Distilled (1484233417)

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.

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
  

Who This Book Is For
Developers just getting familiar with artificial intelligence. A minimal knowledge of C# is required.