More recent release of Image Analysis, whose improved models handle Read, captioning (including dense captions), tagging, object and people detection and smart cropping. It is deprecated, with retirement set for 25 September 2028.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Image Analysis 4.0 in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Image Analysis
Azure Vision API that returns several visual features in a single request: for instance tags, a caption, text recognised by Read OCR and the bounding boxes of detected objects.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- Captioning
Turning speech in live or recorded video into timed text shown on screen; a speech to text use case that can also filter profanity and display partial results.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.