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September 2023

22 Sep

Azure AI Video Indexer features adjustments following Media Services Retirement

Target retirement date: July 01, 2024

Azure AI Video Indexer classic accounts will be retired on 30 June 2024 due to Azure Media Service retirement - migrate your current resources to ARM accounts.

  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Retirements

July 2023

14 Jul

Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024

Target retirement date: June 30, 2024

Azure Media Services will be retired on 30 June 2024 - transition to a Microsoft partner solution or Azure Video Indexer

  • Azure Media Player
  • Media Services
  • Retirements

June 2023

13 Jun

Available: Reduced pricing for Azure Video Indexer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Video indexer will be adding Advanced Audio and Video SKUs for Advanced presets and a 40% price reduction on the Basic Audio Analysis, Audio Analysis and Video Analysis SKUs.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

January 2023

4 Jan

Private Preview: Featured Clothing

IN PREVIEW

This insight provides information on key items worn by individuals within a video and the timestamp in which the clothing appears.

  • Services

October 2022

7 Oct

Azure Media Services Face Detector retirement on 14 September 2023

Target retirement date: September 14, 2023

Retirement of the Azure Media Services Face Detector on 14 September 2023

  • Retirements
  • Features
7 Oct

Azure Media Services Video Analyzer Retirement on September 14, 2023

Target retirement date: September 14, 2023

Retirement of the Azure Media Services VideoAnalyzer preset on September 14, 2023

  • Retirements
  • Features
7 Oct

Azure Media Redactor retirement on 14 September 2023

Target retirement date: September 14, 2023

Retirement of the Azure Media Redactor on 14 September 2023.

  • Retirements
  • Features

July 2022

15 Jul

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: July 01, 2023

The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • Features

May 2021

25 May

Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021

IN PREVIEW

Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure applied AI services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, Azure Video Analyzer is now in public preview. The service brings Live Video Analytics and Video Indexer together so that developers can quickly build AI-powered video analytics solutions.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure AI services
  • Services

September 2020

22 Sep

Azure Cognitive Search - Managed identity support and Private Endpoints are GA

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now request Azure Cognitive Search to create an outbound private endpoint connection in order to securely access data from such data sources via indexers . You can also create identity for a search service in Azure Active Directory, then use RBAC permissions to grant the identity permissions to Azure data sources.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Compliance
  • Services

February 2020

24 Feb

We are retiring Azure Media Analytics preview processors on 1 June 2020

Target retirement date: June 01, 2020

We’ve made significant investments to Video Optical Character Recognition, Face Detector and Content Moderator, as a part of the general availability of Azure Media Services: Video Indexer.

  • Media Services
  • Retirements

October 2019

3 Oct

Azure Media Indexer is being retired

Target retirement date: January 01, 2023

A year ago, we announced the general availability of Azure Video Indexer, which is built on the capabilities of Azure Media Analytics, Azure Search and Cognitive Services. This enables you to extract a rich set of machine learning insights based on multiple channels of your media files, all integrated together in one call and on a shared timeline.

  • Media Services
  • Retirements

September 2019

18 Sep

Public preview – Video Indexer multilingual identification and transcription

IN PREVIEW

Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Features
18 Sep

Public preview – Video Indexer animated character detection

IN PREVIEW

Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping and recognition of characters in animated content.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Features

May 2019

6 May

Video Indexer: multiple facial recognition enhancements have been added

NOW AVAILABLE

Video Indexer has received multiple enhancements for facial recognition scenarios.

  • Video Indexer
  • Features

April 2019

2 Apr

Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified

NOW AVAILABLE

Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.

  • Video Indexer
  • Compliance
2 Apr

Video Indexer has been enhanced with new features

NOW AVAILABLE

Significant updates have been made to Video Indexer, including enhanced language customisation experiences, new scene segmentation and ending rolling credits detection models.

  • Video Indexer
  • Features

March 2019

26 Mar

Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified

NOW AVAILABLE

Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.

  • Video Indexer
  • Compliance

September 2018

25 Sep

Now available: Azure Media Services’ Video Indexer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Media Services’ AI-based media metadata extraction service is now generally available.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Services

May 2018

21 May

Azure Media Services and Video Indexer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Media Services and Video Indexer make it easy to integrate advanced media processing and AI-based media metadata extraction on your apps and workflows.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Features

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