{"id":7195,"date":"2017-07-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2017-07-13T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:30:00","slug":"azure-media-analytics-now-available-on-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/azure-media-analytics-now-available-on-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Media Analytics Now Available on Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the General Availability of <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/media-services\/media-analytics\/\">Azure Media Analytics<\/a> on Azure Government. Azure Media Analytics is built on top of <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/media-services\/media-analytics\/\">Azure Media Services<\/a>, and provides a host of extremely compelling features that enable a wide range of government scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of just some of the scenarios that Azure Media Analytics enables are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyzing evidence collected from various media (e.g., body cams, dash cams)<\/li>\n<li>Protecting identity by redacting faces in videos to comply with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foia.gov\/\">Freedom of Information Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Processing surveillance videos to dramatically speed up investigations<\/li>\n<li>Motion detection of surveillance video to increase the efficiency of investigations<\/li>\n<li>Face detection and emotion recognition in videos<\/li>\n<li>Speech-to-text for all spoken words in a video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Azure Media Analytics technology leverages a collection of powerful processors for specific areas of functionality. These processors can be used either by themselves, or in conjunction with other processors to create custom workflows for your mission&#8217;s video analytics. These analytics workflows can execute in parallel at massive scale, while running on the Azure Government cloud which provides a compliant and secure environment.<\/p>\n<p>The processors available in Azure Government today are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-index-content\">Indexer<\/a> &#8211; provides speech-to-text capabilities including the ability to generate standard caption files.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-hyperlapse-content\">Hyperlapse<\/a> &#8211; creates smooth time-lapsed videos from first-person cameras &#8211; ideal for body-worn and moving cameras.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-motion-detection\">Motion Detection<\/a> &#8211; provides motion detection capabilities against stationary backgrounds &#8211; ideal for security cameras.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-face-and-emotion-detection\">Face and Emotion Detection<\/a> &#8211; provides efficient face tracking capabilities throughout the videos. Automatically indexes locations where faces are detected in the video and provides emotion metadata.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-face-redaction\">Face Redaction<\/a> &#8211; provides automated face redaction capabilities to blur faces of selected individuals, eliminating hours of manual work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-video-summarization\">Thumbnail Generation<\/a> &#8211; provides the ability to either generate a summary video from significant frames in the video, or simply generate thumbnails based on a specified interval.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/media-services\/media-services-video-optical-character-recognition\">Optical Character Recognition (OCR)<\/a> &#8211; extract typeset words from video, including the ability to specify where captions should be searched in the video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These processors are incredibly powerful on their own &#8211; but you can also combine them with the incredible functionality of our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/2017\/05\/11\/expanding-cognitive-services-pilot-for-azure-government\/\">Cognitive Services on Azure Government<\/a> which provide facial detection and recognition, object recognition with computer vision, and language (both speech and text) translation.<\/p>\n<p>You can start building compelling solutions with this cutting-edge technology on our secure and compliant Azure Government cloud today!<\/p>\n<p>Explore Azure Government <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/overview\/clouds\/government\/\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/info.microsoft.com\/AzureGovContact.html\">contact us<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your comments and suggestions to help us continually improve your Azure Government experience. 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