Lab 1 - Computer Vision
Analyze an image by sending it to the Computer Vision API
Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services contain some pre-built models for the most typical tasks, such as object detection in pictures, speech recognition and synthesis, sentiment analysis and so on. Let us test the Computer Vision API service to see if it can recognize some specific objects in one particular problem domain.
Suppose we need to create an application that recognizes Simpson Lego Figures:
We will use the Simpsons Lego Figure Dataset from Henk Boelman.
Let us start by looking at how pre-trained Computer Vision cognitive service can see our images:
1. Setup the Azure Resources
Create a resource group
The Computer Vision Endpoint must be created inside a resource group. You can use an existing resource group or create a new one. To create a new resource group, use the following command. Replace <<resource-group-name>> with your name to use for this resource group. Replace <<location>> with the Azure region to use for this resource group.
Create the Cognitive Service Account
Run the command below to create a free Computer Vision Endpoint. Replace <<resource-group-name>> with the name you used above and use the same location. Replace <<name>> with a name for your resource like: my-computervision.
Get the endpoint details from the Cognitive Service Account
To get the endpoint from the Cognitive service account run the CLI command below. Replace <<name>> and <<resource-group-name>> with the names used above.
Get the API keys
Get the endpoint URL
At this point you should have:
- An endpoint URL looking like this: https://<region>.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/ - 2 keys looking like this: 06a611d19f4f4a88a03f3b552a5d2379
2. Test the Computer Vision Endpoint
Using the command line
Run the command below to test the endpoint for an image with Bart Simpson on it.
The response should look like:
{
"description":{
"tags":[ "text", "indoor", "toy" ],
"captions":[ {
"text": "a hand holding a toy",
"confidence":0.4660031199455261
}]}}
Using a web interface
Navigate to: https://cgntv-cv.azurewebsites.net/ Enter the endpoint URL, the API key, a link to an image and click 'analyze image'. This website shows all the information that comes back from the Computer Vision API.
Tip: Try it with your own images!
3. Conclusion
In this lab you have created a Computer Vision Endpoint in Azure and send images to the endpoint using the command line and a through a visual interface.
While some of the objects (such as Toy) can be recognized by the pre-trained model, more specialized objects (like this is Bart Simpson or Marge Simpson) are not determined correctly.
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