AI Services in Microsoft Azure: Designed to Help

Microsoft's Azure AI services enable optimised operations in industries as varied as retail, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, education, and media.

- Dr Magesh Kasthuri and Dr Anand Nayyar

Azure AI is a powerful platform that can help solve various problems in your organisation using artificial intelligence and machine learning. It has a range of services that can help you create and deploy intelligent solutions for different scenarios, such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, conversational agents, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics. By using Azure AI services, you can improve customer experience, optimise operations, and enhance innovation.

Computer vision

Computer vision is the ability to understand and analyse visual information, such as images and videos. Azure AI has several services that can help you with computer vision, such as Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Custom Vision. These services can help with things like finding faces, recognising objects, reading text, classifying images, and analysing videos. Here are some examples of how computer vision can help in different industries.

Retail: Computer vision can help improve your customer experience, optimise your inventory management, and prevent theft. For example, you can use Azure Cognitive Services to create smart shelves that can tell you when products are out of stock, or smart cameras that can recognise your customers and offer them personalised recommendations.

Healthcare: Computer vision can help improve the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients. For example, you can use Azure Machine Learning to create custom models that analyse medical images, such as X-rays, MRI scans, and CT scans, and find anomalies, diseases, and injuries.