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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.
July 2023
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
June 2023
Available: Reduced pricing for Azure Video Indexer
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.
January 2023
Private Preview: Featured Clothing
This insight provides information on key items worn by individuals within a video and the timestamp in which the clothing appears.
October 2022
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
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
Azure Media Redactor retirement on 14 September 2023
Target retirement date: September 14, 2023
Retirement of the Azure Media Redactor on 14 September 2023.
July 2022
Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
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.
May 2021
Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021
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.
September 2020
Azure Cognitive Search - Managed identity support and Private Endpoints are GA
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.
February 2020
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.
October 2019
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.
September 2019
Public preview – Video Indexer multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public preview – Video Indexer animated character detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping and recognition of characters in animated content.
May 2019
Video Indexer: multiple facial recognition enhancements have been added
Video Indexer has received multiple enhancements for facial recognition scenarios.
April 2019
Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.
Video Indexer has been enhanced with new features
Significant updates have been made to Video Indexer, including enhanced language customisation experiences, new scene segmentation and ending rolling credits detection models.
March 2019
Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.
September 2018
Now available: Azure Media Services’ Video Indexer
Azure Media Services’ AI-based media metadata extraction service is now generally available.
May 2018
Azure Media Services and Video Indexer
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.
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