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Mastering Artificial Intelligence with Azure Cognitive Services

Gain insights into Azure Cognitive Services to deliver intelligent cloud apps. Learn about FastAPI for RESTful APIs and prepare for the Microsoft AI-102 certification exam.

Intermediate

105 Lessons

15h 15min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Azure Cognitive Services to deliver intelligent cloud apps. Learn about FastAPI for RESTful APIs and prepare for the Microsoft AI-102 certification exam.

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This course includes

3 Projects

4 Assessments

108 Playgrounds

14 Quizzes

Course Overview

What You'll Learn

Course Content

Course Overview

Microsoft Azure is more than cloud hosting. With a set of predefined artificial intelligence models available for companies of all sizes, Cognitive Services offers a toolkit to quickly scale AI/ML development with little to no knowledge of data science. In this course, you’ll develop the core skills necessary to deliver intelligent, cloud-based applications and services with a thorough overview of Azure Cognitive Services. First, you’ll review FastAPI, a framework for developing RESTful APIs with Python. N...Show More

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What You'll Learn

A working knowledge of the models in Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services

A familiarity with the FastAPI Python web framework as it relates to implementing Azure AI models

The ability to deploy image-intelligent applications using Vision Cognitive Service

The ability to deploy language-intelligent applications using Language Cognitive Service

The ability to deploy speech-intelligent applications using Speech Cognitive Service

The ability to deploy decision-intelligent applications using Decision Cognitive Service

The understanding and confidence to take the Microsoft certification Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution

A working knowledge of the models in Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services

Course Content

Overview of the Course

1 Lessons

Get familiar with developing AI solutions using Azure services, FastAPI, and capstone projects.

Introduction to the Course

Refresher to FastAPI - Python Web Framework

8 Lessons

Unpack the core of creating, documenting, and managing APIs with FastAPI’s features.

Introduction to FastAPI

Creating Our First App Using FastAPI

Interactive API Docs—A Feature of FastAPI

Path Parameters in FastAPI

Query Parameters in FastAPI

Default and Optional Query Parameters in FastAPI

Request Body in FastAPI

Quiz Yourself on FastAPI

Introduction to Cloud and Microsoft Azure

4 Lessons

Explore cloud computing, Microsoft Azure's platform, and integration of Azure Cognitive Services for AI-enabled applications.

Introduction to the Cloud

Introduction to Microsoft Azure and Its Basic Terminologies

Azure Cognitive Services

Quiz Yourself on Cloud and Microsoft Azure Services

Azure Vision Cognitive Services: Computer Vision

13 Lessons

Enhance your skills in using Azure Computer Vision for OCR, image analysis, and object detection.

Introduction to OCR using Computer Vision's Read API

Creating an Azure Computer Vision Resource

Building an OCR script for Images using Read API

Building an OCR script for Documents using Read API

Introduction to Image Analysis using Vision API

Generate Captions and Tags for an Image

Categorizing the Images

Object Detection in the Images

Brand Detection in the Images

Detect Image Color Scheme

Detecting Domain Specific Content in the Images

Detecting the Type of the Image

Quiz Yourself on Azure Computer Vision

Azure Vision Cognitive Services: Custom Vision

11 Lessons

Build custom image classifiers and object detectors using Azure's Custom Vision portal and SDK.

Introduction to Custom Vision

Building an Image Classifier using Web Portal

Image Classifier Using SDK - Creating the Custom Vision Project

Image Classifier Using SDK - Uploading and Training the Model

Publishing and Testing the Custom Image Classifier Model

Building an Object Detector using Web Portal

Object Detector Using SDK - Create the Custom Vision Project

Object Detector Using SDK - Upload, Train and Test the Model

Publishing and Testing the Custom Object Detection Model

Strategies to Improve the Model

Quiz Yourself on Azure Custom Vision Service

Azure Vision Cognitive Services: Face API

6 Lessons

Tackle facial recognition using Azure Face API for detection, verification, and similarity analysis.

What is Face API?

Detect Faces using Face SDK

Displaying and Framing Faces in an Image

Verifying Faces using Face SDK

Find Similar Faces using Face SDK

Quiz Yourself on Azure Face API Service

Capstone Project 1: Building a Face Mask Classifier

Project

Azure Vision Cognitive Services: Assessment

Assessment

Azure Language Cognitive Services: LUIS

7 Lessons

Practice using LUIS for creating, training, testing, and deploying conversational AI applications.

What is Language Understanding?

What are Intents, Entities and Utterances?

LUIS App Using Web Portal - Creating and Training the Model

LUIS App Using Web Portal - Test, Customize and Consume the Model

LUIS App Using SDK - Creating and Adding Intents and Utterances

LUIS App Using SDK - Training, Publishing and Consuming the Model

Quiz Yourself on Azure Language Understanding

Capstone Project 2: Building a Weather Application Using LUIS

Project

11.

Azure Language Cognitive Services: QnA Maker

6 Lessons

Step through building and managing QnA Maker with Azure Cognitive Services.

What is QnA Maker?

Creating a QnA Maker and Knowledge Base Using Web Portal

Train, Test, and Consume the Knowledge Base Using Web Portal

Creating a Knowledge Base Using SDK

Publishing, Querying and Deleting the Knowledge Base Using SDK

Quiz Yourself on Azure QnA Maker

Capstone Project 3: Building a Chatbot Using Azure QnA Maker

Project

13.

Azure Language Cognitive Services: Text Analytics

9 Lessons

Unpack the core of Azure Text Analytics, including sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, and NER.

What is Text Analytics?

Performing a Key-Phrases Extraction

Performing Sentiment Analysis

Performing Opinion Mining

Performing Text Summarization

Performing Language Detection

What is Named Entity Recognition (NER)?

What is Entity Linking?

Quiz Yourself on Azure Text Analytics

14.

Azure Language Cognitive Services: Translator

7 Lessons

Examine Azure Translator services for text, document translations, custom models, and practical applications.

What is a Translator?

Implementing Text Translation

Implementing Document Translation With Multiple Documents

Implementing Document Translation With Single Document

Custom Translator Model - Creating and Uploading the Dataset

Custom Translator Model - Training, Deploying, and Testing Model

Quiz Yourself on Azure Translator

Azure Language Cognitive Services: Assessment

Assessment

16.

Azure Decision Cognitive Services: Anomaly Detection

6 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Azure-based univariate and multivariate anomaly detection for real-time data insights.

What is Anomaly Detection?

Univariate Anomaly Detection - Historical Data and Latest Data

Univariate Anomaly Detection - Change Points and Best Practices

Multivariate Anomaly Detection - Training the Model

Multivariate Anomaly Detection - Testing and Best Practices

Quiz Yourself on Azure Anomaly Detection

17.

Azure Decision Cognitive Services: Content Moderator

4 Lessons

Take a closer look at Azure Content Moderator's services for analyzing text, images, and videos.

What is a Content Moderator?

Analyze Text Content Using SDK

Analyze Image Content Using SDK

Quiz Yourself on Azure Content Moderator

18.

Azure Decision Cognitive Services: Personalizer

4 Lessons

Implement Azure Personalizer to optimize content recommendations using reinforcement learning and user feedback.

What is Personalizer?

Personalizer - Prepare the Dataset and User Profile Method

Personalizer - Building the Personalizer Loop and Testing Model

Quiz Yourself on Azure Personalizer

Azure Decision Cognitive Services: Assessment

Assessment

20.

Azure Speech Cognitive Services

5 Lessons

Build on using Azure Speech Service for text and audio translation and conversion.

What is Azure Speech Service?

Implementing Speech to Text Translation

Implementing Text to Speech Translation

Implementing Speech Translation

Quiz Yourself on Azure Speech

21.

Azure Bing Search Services

8 Lessons

Get familiar with Azure Bing Search APIs for web, image, news, video searches, and more.

Introduction to Bing Search Services

Creating a Bing Web Search App

Creating a Bing Image Search App

Creating a Bing News Search App

Creating a Bing Video Search App

Using the Bing Auto-Suggest API

Using the Bing Spell Check API

Quiz Yourself on Azure Bing Search

Azure Speech and Bing Search Services: Assessment

Assessment

23.

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Discover the logic behind implementing Azure Cognitive Services and exploring advanced AI avenues.

Summary

Next Steps

24.

Appendix

4 Lessons

Break apart essential steps to set up Azure accounts, install FastAPI, and Azure SDKs.

How to create an Azure account

How to Install FastAPI

How to Install Azure Cognitive Services SDK

How to Create a Storage Account and SAS Token

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