Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services: Use Cognitive Services APIs to add AI capabilities to your applications,3rd Edition
Authors: Leif Larsen
ISBN-10: 1789800617
ISBN-13: 9781789800616
Publication Date 出版日期: 2018-09-27
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing
Print Length 页数: 312 pages
Book Description
By finelybook
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for adding intelligence to your application and leverage the power of AI to solve any business problem using the cognitive capabilities.
This book will be your practical guide to working with cognitive APIs developed by Microsoft and provided with the Azure platform to developers and businesses. You will learn to integrate the APIs with your applications in Visual Studio. The book introduces you to about 24 APIs including Emotion,Language,Vision,Speech,Knowledge,and Search among others. With the easy-to-follow examples you will be able to develop applications for image processing,speech recognition,text procession,and so on to enhance the capability of your applications to perform more human-like tasks. Going ahead,the book will help you work with the datasets that enable your applications to process various data in form of image,videos,and texts.
By the end of the book,you will get confident to explore the Cognitive Services APIs for your applications and make them intelligent for deploying in businesses.
Contents
1: GETTING STARTED WITH MICROSOFT COGNITIVE SERVICES
2: ANALYZING IMAGES TO RECOGNIZE A FACE
3: ANALYZING VIDEOS
4: LETTING APPLICATIONS UNDERSTAND COMMANDS
5: SPEAKING WITH YOUR APPLICATION
6: UNDERSTANDING TEXT
7: BUILDING RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS FOR BUSINESSES
8: QUERYING STRUCTURED DATA IN A NATURAL WAY
9: ADDING SPECIALIZED SEARCHES
10: CONNECTING THE PIECES
What You Will Learn
Identify a person through visual and audio inspection
Reduce user effort by utilizing AI-like capabilities
Understand how to analyze images and texts in different ways
Analyze images using Vision APIs
Add video analysis to applications using Vision APIs
Utilize Search to find anything you want
Analyze text to extract information and explore text structure
Authors
Leif Larsen
Leif Larsen is a software engineer based in Norway. After earning a degree in computer engineering,he went on to work with the design and configuration of industrial control systems,for the most part,in the oil and gas industry. Over the last few years,he has worked as a developer,developing and maintaining geographical information systems,working with .NET technology. Today,he is working with a start-up,developing a brand new SaaS product. In his spare time,he develops mobile apps and explores new technologies to keep up with the high-paced tech world.
You can find out more about him by checking out his blog,”Leif Larsen”,and following him on Twitter (@leif_larsen) and LinkedIn (lhlarsen).
