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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
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.
March 2022
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.
January 2020
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.
October 2019
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.
August 2019
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.
April 2019
Cognitive Services Custom Vision is now available
Easily customize 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.
November 2018
Azure Cognitive Services new enhancements
New enhancements include Logo Detection in Custom Vision Service and Translation improvements.
May 2018
Microsoft Cognitive Services | Custom Vision Service API
Custom Vision Service API aims to identify trained objects and show their location within images.
May 2017
Microsoft Cognitive Services—Custom Vision Service
Custom Vision Service will soon be available in public preview. It's a new, easy-to-use, customizable web service that will learn to recognize specific content in imagery, powered by state-of-the-art machine-learning neural networks that become smarter with training.
Azure IoT Edge now generally available
Azure IoT Edge, a fully managed service that delivers cloud intelligence locally by deploying and running artificial intelligence (AI), Azure services, and custom logic directly on cross-platform IoT devices, is now generally available.
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