Database and Analytics

TH20 I'm Emotional - Using Microsoft Cognitive Services to Understand the World Around You

09/21/2017

2:45pm - 4:00pm

Level: Introductory

Adam Tuliper

Principal Software Engineer, DX

Microsoft

Getting meaningful information from media has been reserved for specialized companies and federal agencies for a long time, yet many applications can benefit from such a technology. You can now make your apps incredibly smarter and eliminate "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." The Cognitive Services from Microsoft let your applications use advanced algorithms easily to extract information from images and videos to understand what is in a picture, what emotions are being conveyed by the people, and more.

You will learn:

  • How to analyze faces and emotions
  • How to understand content in images with computer vision
  • To gain insight into what information is comprised in a video