ISE Developer Blog

Developing a Custom Search Engine for an Expert Chat System

August 7, 2017 Aug 7, 2017 08/7/17

Mona Soliman Habib

We address the challenge of creating a custom search experience for a specific domain area. We also provide a guide for creating your own custom search experience by leveraging Azure Search and Cognitive Services and sharing custom code for iterative testing, measurement and indexer redeployment.

Using Object Detection for Complex Image Classification Scenarios

July 31, 2017 Jul 31, 2017 07/31/17

Ari Bornstein

An overview of different image classification approaches including Microsoft Azure Custom Vision Service and CNTK for various levels of classification complexity.

Automating Receipt Processing

July 5, 2017 Jul 5, 2017 07/5/17

CY Yam

Claiming expenses is usually a manual process. This project aims to improve the efficiency of receipt processing by looking into ways to automate this process. This code story describes how we created a skeletal framework to achieve the following: We found a few challenges in addressing these goals. For instance, the ...

Building an Image Classification Pipeline Using Serverless Architecture

July 1, 2017 Jul 1, 2017 07/1/17

Jason Fox

We collaborated on an image classification pipeline to perform automatic face detection and matching using machine learning via Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API. Our project was built with Azure Functions to process images using message queues.

IoT Sports Sensor Machine Learning Helps Amateurs Up Their Game

June 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017 06/29/17

Patty Ryan

We use IoT sensors to collect positional and motion data from professional and amateur skiers to classify expertise and skill level through machine learning.

Learning Image to Image Translation with Generative Adversarial Networks

June 12, 2017 Jun 12, 2017 06/12/17

Olga Liakhovich

Microsoft has partnered with Getty Images to explore how Neural Nets could be used to transform the stock photo industry.

Food Classification with Custom Vision Service

May 12, 2017 May 12, 2017 05/12/17

Olga Liakhovich

How we created an app to identify foods and their nutritional content by using the new Custom Vision Service to leverage domain-specific image recognition powered by DNNs.

Classifying Leaks Using Cognitive Toolkit

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

Michael Lanzetta

We use Deep Learning to turn a painful and time-consuming leak-detection task for water and oil pipelines into a fast, painless process. Using Python and Fast Fourier Transforms, we turn audio sensor data into images, then use Convolutional Neural Networks to detect and classify pipeline anomalies.