Using AI technologies on the Microsoft Azure platform, covering computer vision, natural language processing, conversational AI, and knowledge mining.

The program focusses on Azure AI Services (formerly Azure Cognitive Services) and is divided into three main sections, each focusing on specific aspects of AI:

• Overview of Computer Vision Technology
• Designing Computer Vision Applications
• Text Extraction with Azure AI Services
• Facial Recognition using Azure Face APIs
• Image Classification and Object Detection with Azure Custom Vision
• Deployment and Monitoring of Computer Vision Solutions

→ Project: Automated Passenger Boarding Kiosk

• Introduction to NLP and Conversational Solutions
• Designing NLP and Conversational AI Solutions
• Building Bots with the Microsoft Bot Framework
• Integrating Azure AI Language Services (Custom Question Answering, Conversational Language Understanding)
• Text Analytics and Speech Services

→ Project: Dental Office Virtual Assistant

• Introduction to Knowledge Mining with Azure
• Designing an Azure AI Search Solution
• Importing Data into Azure AI Search
• Enriching Data in Azure AI Search
• Consuming Azure AI Search in an External Application

→ Project: AI-enriched Corporate Training Catalog

• Building Computer Vision Solutions: Azure AI services, Azure Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer), Azure Video Indexer (formerly Video Analyzer), Custom Vision, Face API

• Building NLP and Conversational AI Solutions: Microsoft Bot Framework (incl. Emulator, Composer), Key phrase extraction, Entity recognition, Azure text analytics, Azure Conversational AI, Language services

• Knowledge Mining: Azure AI Search (data import, indexers, queries), Requirements gathering