Building Computer Vision Solutions with Azure

Overview

This course is designed for anyone who would like to use computer vision technology in their application to solve a business problem. You will begin by learning what computer vision is and its business use cases through real-life business use cases. You will then learn to create solutions using different types of vision-based Azure Cognitive Services, including Azure Form Recognizer for text extraction, Azure Face and Video Analyzer for facial detection and recognition, and Azure Computer Vision and Custom Vision for image classification and object detection. Finally, you will learn and apply the deployment and monitoring tools to ensure that your solution is complete and runs smoothly.

Syllabus

Introduction to Building Computer Vision Solutions with Azure

In this lesson, you will learn why computer vision is important, among other foundational topics. You will get an overview of what we will cover in this course.

Design Computer Vision Applications

In this lesson, you will learn about the business and technical considerations of computer vision applications and solutions. This lesson provides the fundamentals for you to get started.

Extracting Text from Digital Content

In this lesson, you will apply computer vision technology to extract text from various kinds of digital images & documents using specialized Azure Cognitive Services.

Image Classification

The best business use cases of AI are in image classification and object detection solutions, and this lesson gives you a head start on how to implement these with the Azure Custom Vision service.

Object Detection & Spatial Analysis

Solutions Deployment & Monitoring

This lesson provides the operational knowledge on how to deploy and manage your computer vision solutions at Azure to make sure they are running smoothly to produce results.

Automated Passenger Boarding Kiosk

In this project, you will build an automated passenger boarding kiosk. Your objective will be to perform various validation processes and confirm if a given passenger can board the plane or not.

[Optional] Facial Recognition

In this lesson, you will learn how to apply face detection and facial recognition using various Azure Face APIs. You can easily get started with little to no deep learning knowledge.