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Similar to Face API, Computer Vision API service deals with image recognition, though on a bit wider scale. Computer Vision Cognitive Service can recognize different things on a photo and tries to describe what's going on - with a formed statement that describes the whole photo, a list of tags, describing...
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I've just published my Cognitive Services sample app to github . Currently it's limited to Face API service, but I'll work on expanding it to cover other services as well. The Microsoft Cognitive Service Playground app aims to support: managing person groups, managing persons, associating...
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In today's Cognitive Services post, things are going to get a bit more interesting - we're moving from face detection to face identification. The difference is that we're not only going to detect there is a face (or more faces) present on a photo, but actually identify the person that face...
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Once you have a Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API set up ( see previous post ), it's very easy to consume because they are based on a familiar JSON-based REST API. That means you can either access your services by rolling your own code or use one of existing SDKs that are available for most common...
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I've started using Microsoft Cognitive Services a while back for the purpose of learning and using their features for my smart home scenarios. Now that they've moved to Azure, access to old services' home is coming to an end and old access keys are expiring. I couldn't find any way to...
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Yesterday I gave a talk about Windows UI Composition @ local Cancel conference. Here's the slide deck I used, along with (part of) demo code (most demos were shown through my smart home dashboard). Cancel2016.zip (541.75 kb)
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Microsoft Build 2016 is starting in a few hours, You can watch the live stream below. //
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First of all, I’d like to thank everybody who attended my introductory talk at this year’s NT Konferenca (celebrating 20th anniversary this year – and back to Portorož venue). I’ve talked about my smart home wiring and how I’m able to manage it from inside and outside my...
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A while ago, one of my Windows Store apps was in a weird stall – I’ve updated the app to support Windows 8.1 only, but published version was still targeting 8.0. After uploading new version of the app, I had to remove the 8.0 version due to some validation errors – the mistake! I was...
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In one of my talks at recent NT konferenca I talked about some of the new ways of working with application data in Windows Phone 8.1. With all the exciting additions to the latest Windows Phone 8.1 APIs, the best news around application data in those new APIs is that they are now (mostly) aligned with...
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You know those fancy car GPS navigators that automatically switch color mode to dark when it gets dark to make it easy on your eyes? The display even turns dark when you drive into a tunnel and lights back up when you’re out… Well, with ambient-light sensor support in the latest Windows...
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Latest Windows Phone update, called Windows Phone 8.1 will bring us a new app for managing podcasts. The Podcasts app, similar to what we previously had in Music+Videos hub’s podcasts section, will let users subscribe to their favorite shows to be played later on. The good things for developers...
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Here is a first ever snapshot of my home-grown memory profiler for Xamarin.Android. While very spartan it does the core job – comparing two snapshots for objects with growing instances (aka memory leaks). An array of Autofac.Core.IRegistrationSource[] is showing its references (one root, one to a List<>...
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If you have been doing development with Xamarin on Android you have probably noticed the total absence of any profiler, there is not even a decent method to get the high resolution time. Sure, there is Environment.TickCount but the resolution is at best in milliseconds. Pretty useless for performance...
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Occasionally I watch road bicycling and it happens that I started following Vuelta 2013 . Of course I downloaded the official application for Android as well - to keep an eye on standings. The poor quality of the Android application bothered me a bit. Both the lack of data and poor UI. Most notably I...