Extract sturdy insights from picture and video content material with Azure Cognitive Service for Imaginative and prescient
We’re happy to announce the general public preview of Microsoft’s Florence basis mannequin, educated with billions of text-image pairs and built-in as cost-effective, production-ready laptop imaginative and prescient companies in Azure Cognitive Service for Imaginative and prescient. The improved Imaginative and prescient Providers allows builders to create cutting-edge, market-ready, accountable laptop imaginative and prescient functions throughout numerous industries. Prospects can now seamlessly digitize, analyze, and join their information to pure language interactions, unlocking highly effective insights from their picture and video content material to help accessibility, drive acquisition by way of search engine optimization, defend customers from dangerous content material, improve safety, and enhance incident response occasions.
Microsoft was not too long ago named a Chief within the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Basic-Function Laptop Imaginative and prescient AI Software program Platforms 2022 Vendor Evaluation (doc #US49776422, November 2022). The brand new Imaginative and prescient Providers improves content material discoverability with automated captioning, good cropping, classifying, background removing, and trying to find photos. Moreover, customers can observe actions, analyze environments, and obtain real-time alerts with accountable AI controls.
Reddit will probably be utilizing Imaginative and prescient Providers to generate captions for lots of of thousands and thousands of photos on its platform. Tiffany Ong, Reddit Product Supervisor of Shopper Product has mentioned,
“With Microsoft’s Imaginative and prescient know-how, we’re making it simpler for customers to find and perceive our content material. The newly created picture captions make Reddit extra accessible for everybody and provides redditors extra alternatives to discover our photos, interact in conversations, and in the end construct connections and a way of neighborhood.”
Microsoft is harnessing the ability of the brand new Imaginative and prescient Providers in Microsoft 365 apps like Groups, PowerPoint, Outlook, Phrase, Designer, OneDrive, along with the Microsoft Datacenter. Microsoft Groups is driving innovation within the digital area with the assistance of segmentation capabilities, taking digital conferences to the subsequent degree. PowerPoint, Outlook, and Phrase leverage picture captioning for automated alt-text to enhance accessibility. Microsoft Designer and OneDrive are utilizing improved picture tagging, picture search, and background era to simplify picture discoverability and enhancing. Microsoft Datacenters are leveraging Imaginative and prescient Providers to reinforce safety and infrastructure reliability.
At this week’s Microsoft Skill Summit, firms will find out how they’ll enhance the accessibility of their visible content material. We’ll share the way forward for our Seeing AI app and LinkedIn will share the advantages of using Imaginative and prescient Providers to ship automated alt-text descriptions for picture evaluation. As a preview, Jennison Asuncion, LinkedIn’s Head of Accessibility Engineering Evangelism has mentioned,
“Greater than 40 % of LinkedIn’s feed posts embrace at the least one picture. We would like each member to have equal entry to alternative and are dedicated to making sure that we make photos accessible to our members who’re blind or who’ve low imaginative and prescient so they could be a a part of the net dialog. With Azure Cognitive Service for Imaginative and prescient, we are able to present auto-captioning to edit and help alt. textual content descriptions. I am enthusiastic about this new expertise as a result of now, not solely will I do know my colleague shared an image from an occasion they attended, however that my CEO Ryan Roslansky can also be within the image.”
Check out the brand new out-of-the-box options our prospects are utilizing in Imaginative and prescient Studio:
- Dense captions: Mechanically ship wealthy captions, design ideas, accessible alt-text, search engine optimization optimization, and clever photograph curation to help digital content material.
- Picture retrieval: Enhance search suggestions and ads with pure language queries that seamlessly measure the similarity between photos and textual content.
- Background removing: Rework the feel and appear of photos by simply segmenting individuals and objects from their authentic background, changing them with a most popular background scene.
- Mannequin customization: Decrease prices and time to ship customized fashions that match distinctive enterprise calls for at excessive precision, and with only a handful of photos.
- Video summarization (Video TL;DR): Search and work together with video content material in the identical intuitive means you suppose and write. Find related content material with out the necessity for added metadata.
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Revolutionize your laptop imaginative and prescient functions with improved effectivity, accuracy, and accessibility in picture and video processing, on the similar low value. Go to Imaginative and prescient Studio to check out our newest demos.
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