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Analyzing Faces with Azure Face Service
In this hands-on lab, you are working as an AI Engineer for Brand Specialists, an advertising firm, and you’ve been asked to analyze faces and get information back to determine if they like a product or not. You’ll use a pre-provided command-line application to utilize Azure Computer Vision to scan images with people in them and retrieve their facial attributes.
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Challenge
Review the Image to Be Analyzed, and Connect to the Virtual Machine
Make some guesses about what attributes will come back about the couple.
Use a remote desktop client application to connect to the public IP address of the Windows virtual machine shown on the lab page.
If you are on Windows OS, see step 2 in the following article on how to use the Remote Desktop client. In place of the PC name, use the public IP address given in the lab page.
If you are on Mac OS, you can download the Microsoft Remote Desktop client from the Apple Store.
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Run the Command-Line Application
Using File Explorer, browse to C:\code\content-AI-900\, and double click on 2-azure_face.py to start the image analysis!
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Review the Results of the Facial Analysis
Look at whom it picked up in the image and what attributes it recognized.
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Bonus! Try Your Own Images!
As a bonus objective, right click on the 2-azure_face.py, and click Edit with IDLE. In the window that opens, look for the red comment
Change the URL between the quotes below to run your own image, and change the URL to a picture you’d like to run through image analysis!
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