Azure updates

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development

Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains

• Microsoft Build
• Features

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.

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

Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services

Azure Form Recognizer now supports extraction from custom documents, W-2 forms, access to the read API, additional human languages and enhancements.

• Features

Azure Logic Apps updates for November and December 2019

These are the new features, fixes and connectors for Azure Logic Apps that were released in November and December of 2019.

• Logic Apps
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Twelve Cognitive Services are available for free with an Azure free account

Twelve Cognitive Services are now available for free with an Azure free account. Give your apps, websites and bots the ability to see, understand and interpret people’s needs using natural methods of communication.

• Azure AI services
• Services

Cognitive Services—Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview

Target availability: Q4 2019

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.

• Azure AI services
• Services
• Security
• Features

Cognitive Services Custom Vision is now available

Easily customise your own state-of-the-art computer vision models for your unique use case. Just upload a few labeled images and let Custom Vision Service do the hard work. With just one click, you can export trained models to be run on a device or as Docker containers.

• Azure AI services
• Services

Azure Cognitive Services new enhancements

New enhancements include Logo Detection in Custom Vision Service and Translation improvements.

• Azure AI services
• Services

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Custom Vision Service API

Custom Vision Service API aims to identify trained objects and show their location within images.

• Azure AI services
• Features

Microsoft Cognitive Services—Custom Vision Service

Custom Vision Service will soon be available in public preview. It is a new, easy-to-use, customisable web service that will learn to recognise specific content in imagery, powered by state-of-the-art machine-learning neural networks that become smarter with training.

• Azure AI services
• Features