Category: Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)

Publishing a Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Bot to Microsoft Teams

In a previous post, we looked at how to create a PowerApps Virtual Agent that gets the weather from an MSN weather service, so users can ask the bot what the weather is. In this post, we will deploy that service out to Microsoft Teams, so users of Teams can easily ask the bot questions. First, let’s go to the bot and go to Manage->Channels, then select Microsoft Teams: This … Continue reading Publishing a Microsoft Power Virtual Agents Bot to Microsoft Teams

Create a Bot using Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate to Get Today’s Weather with No Code

The Microsoft Power Platform has exciting new capabilities with its Power Virtual Agents, used to build intelligent bots, and Power Automate, used to write no-code flows and integrations. What’s also exciting is the ability to call flows from bots in order to help bots answer questions and provide information to a customer/user. As I previously promised after the Ignite 2019 announcements, we will now look at how to create a … Continue reading Create a Bot using Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate to Get Today’s Weather with No Code

Embedding and Viewing an AI Builder Model in PowerApps and Dynamics 365

In our last post, we created a Binary Classification model using the AI Builder in Microsoft PowerApps. In this post, we will continue the example and embed the results in a PowerApp / Dynamics 365 so users can view these results. First, select the AI Model and in the bottom, click Publish: This will publish the model: Once complete, the model will show as “Live”: Now, let’s add this to … Continue reading Embedding and Viewing an AI Builder Model in PowerApps and Dynamics 365

Using the AI Builder in the Microsoft Power Platform for Binary Classification

In this post, we will look at how to use the AI Builder for PowerApps and Dynamics 365 to predict an outcome in the Microsoft Power Platform. Note at the time of writing this is Preview functionality. The AI Builder is an Artificial Intelligence feature of the Microsoft Power Platform that is used to perform AI functionality. In this post, we will look at a Binary Classification example. First, go … Continue reading Using the AI Builder in the Microsoft Power Platform for Binary Classification

Recognize Your Customers with Face Recognition, Cloud AI, and Dynamics 365

Artificial Intelligence has been influencing how we live for some time. And now more than ever, the tech giants have been competing to win businesses and developers with their AI services. Microsoft is one of these, and through it’s Azure cloud it has been democratizing the power of various AI capabilities for businesses and developers to take advantage of. In previous posts I have blogged about using voice recognition technology … Continue reading Recognize Your Customers with Face Recognition, Cloud AI, and Dynamics 365

Developing with Azure Cognitive Services Face API using C#

In this series, I will show how to use Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services Face API using C#. Signing up for a Microsoft Cognitive Services Subscription Key (Face) – Part 0 Building an Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 1 Face Recognition Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 2 Attribute/Emotion Detection Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 3 – People, Groups and Persisted Faces … Continue reading Developing with Azure Cognitive Services Face API using C#

Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 4 – Verifying Faces and People

In our previous posts we did the following: Face Recognition Attribute/Emotion Detection People, Groups and Persisted Faces In this post we will look at verifying faces to people. Let’s do a few things first. We will add a new Image control to the form next to our original Image1 control. We will call this Image 2. We will move our TextBlock1 to the right. We will also add 2 buttons: … Continue reading Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 4 – Verifying Faces and People

Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 3 – People, Groups and Persisted Faces

Building on our previous posts, in this post we will show how people and groups functionality works, and how to persist faces to Microsoft Azure. In our WPF application, add a new button called Create Person: On pressing this button, we will do the following: We will create a new Person Group, called “My People Group”, using PersonGroup.CreateAsync. We will also set the GUID of this group We will create … Continue reading Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 3 – People, Groups and Persisted Faces

Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 2 Attribute/Emotion Detection

In our previous post, we created an app that recognizes faces in a given image. In this post, we will extend the app to detect face attributes such as the emotions of the person, their hair, makeup etc in the photo. The attributes returned from the service include: Age Blur Emotion Facial Hair Gender Glasses Hair Head Pose Makeup Noise Occlusion Smile Add a TextBlock: Add the face attributes to … Continue reading Building An Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 2 Attribute/Emotion Detection

Building an Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 1 Face Recognition

In this post we will go through an example of using Azure’s Cognitive Services Face Recognition functionality. This app will be built in C# and will take a given photo/image and upload it to Azure Cognitive Services, then determine what are faces within the image using DetectWithStreamAsync, and finally draw a rectangle around those faces. Let’s build the app. First you will need to sign up for an Azure Cognitive Services … Continue reading Building an Azure Cognitive Services Face App – Part 1 Face Recognition