The future is here: Microsoft announces that Video Indexer is now generally available and it's scary to see what it can do

Microsoft continues to expand the functions it offers that grow supported by the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), for now there is no model that Hollywood has shown us... fortunately. We have seen how, for example, thanks to it, security has improved on our computers and now the multimedia section is improved thanks to Microsoft Video Indexer

Video Indexer was announced at Microsoft's Build 2018 conference in May and is an advanced artificial intelligence-based metadata extraction service In this way, metadata of the images and voice of the videos can be extracted with the aim of improving searches in other applications.

The future is here

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As they themselves cite, Video Indexer&39;s goal is none other than to improve content discoverability and accessibility, create new monetization opportunities, and unlock data-driven experiences. The range of possibilities offered by Video Indexer or any other similar application is enormous"

Video Indexer is now generally available, but its potential users are mostly companies that can use it for example to convert voice to text and sub titles in ten different languages ​​or for visual text recognition (OCR ), keyword extraction, tag identifications, face identification, celebrity face recognition, sentiment analysis…

In addition, in parallel with the announcement of the general availability of Video Indexer, Microsoft announced the following new capabilities coming to the utility :

• On the one hand, the Emotion recognition model, which is responsible for detecting emotions in video and audio based on the content of the speech and subject's tones of voice.
• Here comes a thematic inference model that seeks to detect specific themes in video and audio files and to do so is based on the use of certain spoken words and visual patterns.
• The model used for celebrity recognition has been improved, which now covers a million faces and for this makes use of sources of data such as IMDB, Wikipedia or prominent LinkedIn profiles.

The future is already here and what a few years ago seemed like science fiction in movies like Minority Report or AI, is now commonplace in the developments that little by little we are seeing in the real world. Video Indexer can be tested from its website.

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