Integrating Computer Vision or Custom Vision with Power BI

Whether you want to integrate a Computer Vision or Custom Vision model from Cognitive Services with Power BI, the process is similar. With both Azure Cognitive Services, you can use the model to score new data by using the endpoint and one of the authentication keys that will be generated.

Using the endpoint and key of a model, you can also integrate a Computer Vision or Custom Vision model in Power BI. The API call to the service is similar to the way we integrated language with Power BI in Chapter 8, Integrating Natural Language Understanding with Power BI.

Let's start by importing data in Power BI that includes image URLs. You can download the metadata table as a comma-separated values (CSV) file from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Artificial-Intelligence-with-Power-BI/tree/main/Chapter10/image-urls. Then, proceed as follows:

1. Open the Power BI Desktop application.
2. Add a new Data Source...