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Computer Vision from the Cognitive service is the way to find meaning in the image, but what to do when we have to find our own custom object? How to create our own model to find our custom object? If you are looking for a simplest way, then Microsoft customvision.ai is the one to look for. Just head over to below link & register yourself. https://customvision.ai/ The Custom Vision Service is an Azure Cognitive Service that lets you build custom image classifiers. It makes it easy and fast to build, deploy, and improve an image classifier. Once you are registered with custom vision, you can create 2 projects for free. Create a new project. Use "Classification" as Project Type, "MultiClass (Single tag per image)" as Classification type (I am using images with only single object in it) and "General (Compact)" as Domain for leaner model for Mobile device use. Refer below image for reference. Now upload the images & provide a t...

Microsoft has provided an easy to use QnA Maker service which gives ability to build, train and publish a simple question and answer bot based on FAQ URLs, structured documents or editorial content in minutes. Just register on below url. https://qnamaker.ai/ Once registered it gives option to create new service. After creating the new service, it gives option to input a FAQ page url or upload FAQ files (formats - .tsv, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xlsx) or start with blank data & enter your own questions and answers. For the article I choose FAQ url, once the url is entered, service scans the content from the page & creates the Knowledge Base. The knowledge base can be trained & saved and can be published to be used in the bot or any other application. Service also provide a very handy interface to Test the request response. Just use the "Test" option on the left hand side. Now as our QnA service is published, we can go to Azure portal & cre...