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Deploying a Batch AI Cluster for Distributed Deep Learning Model Training

Stephanie Marker July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18

Distributed Deep Learning Model Training on Batch AI For Land O'Lakes Sustainability Project With population growth spiking around the world, and scientists warning of the risk of climate change on the environment around us, across industries corporations are turning to innovation to help them make practices greener and more sustainable. ...

Satellite Images Segmentation and Sustainable Farming

Olga Liakhovich July 5, 2018 Jul 5, 2018 07/5/18

Introduction Sustainability in agriculture is crucial to safeguard natural resources and ensure a healthy planet for future generations. To assist farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in the adoption and implementation of sustainable farming practices, organizations like the NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Services) provide ...

Building a Private Ethereum Consortium

Jason Poon June 1, 2018 Jun 1, 2018 06/1/18

Background The travel industry estimates 3-5% of bookings are disputed due to discrepancies in the data held by each party and can take months to resolve. Over the past two years, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to build a blockchain-based solution, Rezchain, that helps travel companies resolve data and avoid invoice reconciliation ...

Using Otsu’s method to generate data for training of deep learning image segmentation models

Clemens Wolff May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018 05/17/18

Background Partnering with Microsoft, golf performance tracking startup Arccos has set out to use artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to build apps that help golfers step up their game. Last year, they gifted golfers a new ace in the hole – their own “virtual caddie” app, powered by Microsoft’s cloud and machine ...

Fashion Retail Inventory Management With Deep Learning Content-based Image Retrieval

CY Yam May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18

Optimizing Fashion Retail Inventory Management With Deep Learning Content-based Image Retrieval Background The online fashion retail space continues to boom, as modern consumers increasingly lean towards a more convenient remote buying experience. However, to stay ahead of the competition, leading retail brands need to offer an ever ...

Making sense of Handwritten Sections in Scanned Documents using the Azure ML Package for Computer Vision and Azure Cognitive Services

Tingting Zhao May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Business Problem For businesses of all sorts, one of the great advantages of the shift from physical to digital documents is the fast and effective search and knowledge extraction methods now available. Gone are the days of reviewing documents line-by-line to find particular information. However, things get more complicated when the ...

Runtime Configuration of Spark Streaming Jobs

Kevin Hartman May 1, 2018 May 1, 2018 05/1/18

Background Project Fortis is a social data ingestion, analysis, and visualization platform. Originally developed by Microsoft in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), Fortis provides planners and scientists with tools to gain insight from social media, public websites and ...

OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications

Ben Greenier April 23, 2018 Apr 23, 2018 04/23/18

OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications We recently collaborated with Aveva, an industrial design and management software company. The goal for Aveva was to improve its remote rendering service and extend this technology to support an ever-growing list of platforms and devices including HoloLens. As a result of our collaboration, we ...

Deep Learning Image Segmentation for Ecommerce Catalogue Visual Search

CY Yam April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18

Background From giant online shoe shops to e-commerce furniture mega-companies, inventory management for online retailers drives one of their largest expenses. When workers can't find catalogue items that match a physical apparel item in the warehouse, errors are introduced and time is wasted. Updating the catalog delivers ...

Packaging an Electron app for managed distribution across devices

Hassaan April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18

Introduction A customer we were recently collaborating with came to us with an interesting problem regarding their cross platform codebase and managed distribution. We learned that they were planning to build an Electron-based application and needed help from Microsoft to understand how to build, deploy and manage the application on Windows...