Cloud Computing

W13 I'm Emotional - Using Microsoft Cognitive Services to Understand the World Around You

03/15/2017

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Adam Tuliper

Principal Software Engineer, DX

Microsoft

Getting meaningful information from media was reserved for specialized companies and federal agencies for a long time, yet many applications can benefit from such technology. You can now make your apps incredibly smarter, and eliminate the potential, "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." Cognitive Services from Microsoft let your applications use advanced algorithms to extract information from images and videos to better understand what is in a picture, what emotions are being conveyed by the people, and more. This session will show you how to integrate with these advanced API across a variety of application types.

You will learn:

  • How to analyze emotions
  • How to detect objects in images
  • Insight into what information is comprised in a video