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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Use Cognitive Services APIs to add AI capabilities to your applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800616
Length 312 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speaking with Your Application 6. Understanding Text 7. Building Recommendation Systems for Businesses 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces A. LUIS Entities B. License Information Index

Searching for images and videos


The Bing Image Search API and Bing Video Search API allow us to search directly for images or videos. These APIs should be used only if you need image or video content. There is a possibility that calling these APIs will affect performance and relevance negatively, and as such, one should aim to use the Bing Web Search API.

Note

If you have not already done so, sign up for the Bing Image Search API and the Bing Video Search API at https://portal.azure.com.

Using a common user interface

As we do not need image or video search in our smart-house application, we will go on to create a new project. Create this project using the MVVM template that we created in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services.

These APIs do not come with any client packages. Like we did previously, we should really make these calls from the server-side application not the client application. In any case, we need to copy the BingWebRequest.cs file from the smart-house application...

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