Visual data in your business ecosystem holds immense potential to optimize operations and drive growth. Artificial intelligence holds the key to unlocking the treasure trove of opportunities visual data can create. If you are looking for a powerful platform to create tailored solutions that can decipher, analyze and derive actionable insights from your image data, Microsoft Azure AI Vision is the gateway.
For starters, Azure AI Vision is a suite of tools and cutting-edge technologies within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, designed to revolutionize how businesses interact with visual data. Azure AI Vision comes with pre-built machine learning models for image analysis, custom vision capabilities and robust content moderation tools. The platform helps you build tailored image recognition models that will improve operational efficiency, ensure appropriate content distribution, and enhance compliance.
Computer vision solutions with Azure AI Vision
The advancements in Azure AI Vision present opportunities for businesses to develop innovative solutions and business services across various industries. Here are some potential solutions you can create with Azure AI Vision:
Enhanced Image Analysis solutions
Image analysis has potential use cases across industries. For example, retailers can use AI to analyze images of shelves in their warehouses and stores to determine stock levels and maintain optimal inventory levels. Manufacturers can leverage image analysis to identify defects in products and machinery.
Azure AI Vision offers machine learning models to create customized image analysis solutions, allowing you to extract valuable insights from images, including image captioning, object detection, and OCR, with improved accuracy for handwritten text. Using image analysis, you can replace manual processes and expedite operations with more accuracy.
Prevent identity theft with liveness detection
Identity theft has been a rising challenge in the cyber world, causing more than six billion dollars in financial losses. Scammers are taking advantage of modern AI technologies, such as Deepfakes, in their frauds. AI also offers the solution to this challenge through the liveness detection technique. Liveness detection helps you identify whether the detected presence is from a live person or from an image or video and prevents spoofing attacks. You can create such security applications using Azure AI Vision, leveraging the liveness functionality on the platform. This could be integrated into access control systems or identity verification services. The platform also offers a mobile-ready software development kit (SDK) to integrate facial recognition and liveness detection into various mobile applications.
Text and Document Processing solutions
For some businesses, completely replacing paper is not feasible. Organizations such as law firms, educational institutions, healthcare providers, etc. produce handwritten notes. However, they digitize these documents for collaboration or for preserving information. For such businesses, AI-powered document processing solutions help save time, boost productivity, and improve efficiency. Using Azure AI Vision, you can develop tailored solutions that can accurately extract handwritten text from images.
Image-Based Accessibility Solutions
Accessibility is important in terms of both customer experience and compliance. Accessibility shows a sense of inclusiveness in your business, inviting persons with disabilities to access your services or use your products without any hassles. This builds positive sentiment for your brand and improves customer loyalty. On the other hand, countries worldwide are enforcing stricter accessibility laws. Not complying with these laws will attract hefty penalties. For example, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows penalties up to $100,000.
Using OCR capabilities on Azure AI Vision, you can create accessibility solutions that assist visually impaired individuals by converting image-based text into accessible formats. These solutions will aid in navigating or using your products and help you comply with accessibility laws.
Azure AI Vision solutions seamlessly integrate with your existing line-of-business applications and enterprise systems, ensuring minimal disruption to your business while deploying the solutions. This integration capability makes Azure AI Vision a feasible solution for businesses rather than completely replacing existing solutions with new AI-powered solutions.
While deciding on leveraging Azure AI Vision for your business, you need to evaluate whether you have the perfect use case for image analysis, optical character recognition, or spatial analysis and Azure AI Vision is a feasible solution. This evaluation requires expertise in respective business processes as well as digital technologies. You can make an informed decision only when you have both minds sitting together to evaluate possible solutions. For most businesses, technical expertise is a problem.
Need help?
At Saxon AI, we help businesses across industries to tap into the potential of artificial intelligence. We are offering an exclusive workshop on AI where you can discuss challenges and solutions with our in-house experts. We create proof of concepts (POC) for your unique business scenarios to enable you to evaluate the solutions with more precision. Our POCs have helped several enterprise customers invest in the best solutions to achieve high ROIs.
