Microsoft's Vision API can automatically detect and filter adult and racy pictures

Microsoft has rolled out a new Vision API which can automatically categorize imagery of an developed nature. The automobile-learning API is part of Project Oxford, and similar the face up detection API announced yesterday — which determines your age and gender based on a photo — is aimed at assisting devs in creating more compelling apps for Windows and Windows Phone.

The Vision API analyzes an image's visual content for "paradigm categories, pornographic detection, dominant color, and more:"

Apply the developed and racy features to enable automated brake of sexual content and protect your users.
Utilize categorization to help suspend tags to images, likewise as group images into clusters.

In addition to paradigm categorization, the API can generate a 'high quality and storage efficient" thumbnail from an input image:

Leverage thumbnail generation to assist nowadays images in the best course suited to your needs.
Utilize smart cropping for thumbnails that are different than the aspect ratio of your original image in lodge to preserve the region of involvement.

There's too OCR (Optical Character Recognition), which converts whatever text institute in an image to a machine-readable format:

Run on embedded images to generate text and enable searching.
Allow users to take photos of text instead of transcribing to save time and attempt.

You can effort out the features offered by Vision API past heading to the link below and uploading an image:

Vision API image categorization demo{.cta}

Project Oxford also features a Speech API that offers real-time speech recognition, Voice communication Intent Recognition — which leverages Microsoft'south Language Agreement Intelligent Service technology to understand the intent of the intent of a sentence, speech-to-text conversion every bit well as a text-to-speech utility that converts written text into audio.

Source: Microsoft (Project Oxford)

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