Mastering Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2.x

Visual search using Azure

Azure is Microsoft's cloud machine learning platform that's used to build, manage, and deploy an application. Like GCP and AWS, Azure has many features, but the ones we will be interested in for our computer vision work is Azure AI and Azure Machine Learning (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/). In AI and Machine Learning, the applications related to computer vision are Azure Bot Service, Azure Cognitive Search, Bing Image Search, Bing Visual Search, and Computer Vision. For example, if you want to perform a visual search, then go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bing-visual-search/visual-search-sdk-python.

The basic steps for a visual search in the Azure cloud platform are as ...