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  Introduction The field of artificial intelligence that deals with visual perception is called computer vision. Several services that enable typical computer vision scenarios are included in Azure AI Vision. A subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) called Azure AI Vision uses software to understand visual data, frequently from photos or video feeds. Provision an Azure AI Vision Resource The Azure AI Vision service is designed to help you extract information from images. It provides functionality that you can use for: Description and tag generation - determining an appropriate caption for an image, and identifying relevant "tags" that can be used as keywords to indicate its subject. Object detection - detecting the presence and location of specific objects within the image. People detection - detecting the presence, location, and features of people in the image. Image metadata, color, and type analysis - determining the format and size of an image, its dominant color pa...

  When to use Azure AI Content Safety? Numerous online platforms motivate users to express their opinions. Individuals have faith in the reviews of other users regarding products, services, brands, and beyond. Such feedback is frequently candid, perceptive, and perceived as being devoid of promotional bias. However, not every piece of content is created with good intentions. Azure AI Content Safety is an artificial intelligence service aimed at delivering a more thorough method of content moderation. Azure AI Content Safety helps organizations to prioritize work for human moderators in a growing number of situations: Education The quantity of learning platforms and online educational resources is increasing quickly, with a constant influx of new information. Educators must ensure that students are not encountering inappropriate material or submitting harmful queries to LLMs. Furthermore, both educators and students desire assurance that the information they are engaging with is acc...

  How Does Azure AI Content Safety Work? Azure AI Content Safety is designed to work with both text and images, as well as content generated by AI. It can identify and moderate inappropriate material. The visual capabilities of Content Safety are driven by Microsoft's Florence foundation model, which has been trained on billions of pairs of text and images. The analysis of text employs natural language processing methods to enhance the understanding of subtlety and context. Azure AI Content Safety supports multiple languages and is capable of recognizing harmful content in both short and long formats. It is currently available in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese. Azure AI Content Safety features include: Safeguarding Text Content Moderate text scans text across four categories: violence, hate speech, sexual content, and self-harm. A severity level from 0 to 6 is returned for each category. This level helps to prioritize what needs immediate attent...

  Introduction Azure AI Content Safety is an all-inclusive technology made to identify and control dangerous content in both AI-generated and user-generated content. Developers may include sophisticated content safety into their apps and services with the aid of Azure AI Content Safety, an AI solution. Developer teams in charge of hosting online debates are facing increasing difficulties in upholding polite and safe online environments. Azure AI Content Safety finds potentially dangerous content and assists businesses in meeting their own quality standards and legal requirements. The need for improving online content safety has four main drivers: Increase in harmful content - There's been a huge growth in user-generated online content, including harmful and inappropriate content. Regulatory pressures - Government pressure to regulate online content. Transparency - Users need transparency in content moderation standards and enforcement. Complex content - Advances in technology are m...

  Introduction You can deploy a containerized service that encapsulates a specific Azure AI services service API by using the container images for Azure AI services that are available in the Microsoft Container Registry. To deploy and use an Azure AI services container, the following three activities must occur: The container image for the specific Azure AI services API you want to use is downloaded and deployed to a container host, such as a local Docker server, an Azure Container Instance (ACI), or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Client applications submit data to the endpoint provided by the containerized service, and retrieve results just as they would from an Azure AI services cloud resource in Azure. Periodically, usage metrics for the containerized service are sent to an Azure AI services resource in Azure in order to calculate billing for the service. For billing purposes, you must provision an Azure AI services resource in Azure even if you are using a container....

  Introduction Containers allow you to run Azure AI services either in your local environment or within Azure. For instance, if your application relies on sensitive information stored in an on-premises SQL Server to access an Azure AI service, you can implement Azure AI services in containers on the same network. This ensures that your data remains within your local network instead of being transferred to the cloud. Furthermore, deploying Azure AI services in a local container will reduce latency between the service and your data, which can enhance performance. Understand Containers When you launch a software service, it needs to be placed in an environment that supplies the necessary hardware, operating system, and supporting runtime components required by the service. Azure AI services are offered as a cloud service, where the service software is maintained within an Azure data center that supplies the core runtime services, operating system, and hardware. Additionally,...