Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision

Definition

Branch of AI that lets machines interpret and understand visual information (images and video). Includes image classification, object detection, facial recognition, and OCR.

Exam context

In AI-901: Azure AI Vision (formerly Cognitive Services - Computer Vision) provides these capabilities. Use cases: moderating inappropriate images, describing the content of a photo, reading text in images (OCR). Today images are also interpreted with multimodal models in Microsoft Foundry.

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Computer Vision is a concept that can show up on the exam. Check the full guide to see it in context.