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Microsoft and Land O'Lakes partnered to develop an automated solution to identify sustainable farming practices given thousands of satellite images of Iowan farms. Our primary goal was to reduce the reliance on manual interviewing of farmers and make it more profitable for farmers to follow sustainable farming practices. To tackle this issue our te...
Can Machine Learning help with detecting sustainable farming practices? In this blog post inspired by our collaboration with Land O'Lakes we share the lessons we learned in the image segmentation space.
In this article, we introduce a technique to rapidly pre-label training data for image segmentation models such that annotators no longer have to painstakingly hand-annotate every pixel of interest in an image. The approach is implemented in Python and OpenCV and extensible to any image segmentation task that aims to identify a subset of visually d...
In early 2018, Microsoft partnered with a successful international online fashion retailer to develop an efficient system for logging newly arrived apparel items and quickly determining whether the item is already in stock
Extracting general concepts, rather than specific phrases, from documents and contracts is challenging. It's even more complicated when applied to scanned documents containing handwritten annotations. We describe using object detection and OCR with Azure ML Package for Computer Vision and Cognitive Services API.
We explored possible techniques to identify duplicate catalogue entries in fashion retail through image similarity with deep learning and computer vision.
We analyze how Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks could be helpful with malware detection and classification scenarios, demonstrating the usefulness of this approach for generic sequence intent analysis. The novelty of our approach is in applying techniques that are used to discover structure in a narrative text to data that describes the beha...
When it comes to identifying and understanding influential voices in social media, context is key. See how we used topic detection, sentiment analysis, and Azure Functions to automate context-aware social media insights.
This story covers how to get started with transfer-learning and build image classification models in Python with the Custom Vision Service. We compare the results with the popular Tensorflow-based models Inception and MobileNet.
We developed a deep learning model using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network to predict future stock market performance of companies using Azure Machine Learning Workbench and Keras.