What's new in Computer Vision
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January 2021
Spatial analysis container update
A new version of the spatial analysis container has been released with a new feature set. This Docker container lets you analyze real-time streaming video to understand spatial relationships between people and their movement through physical environments.
- Spatial analysis operations can be now configured to detect if a person is wearing a protective face covering such as a mask.
- A mask classifier can be enabled for the
personcount,personcrossinglineandpersoncrossingpolygonoperations by configuring theENABLE_FACE_MASK_CLASSIFIERparameter. - The attributes
face_maskandface_noMaskwill be returned as metadata with confidence score for each person detected in the video stream
- A mask classifier can be enabled for the
October 2020
Computer Vision API v3.1 GA
The Computer Vision API in General Availability has been upgraded to v3.1.
September 2020
Spatial analysis container preview
The spatial analysis container is now in preview. The spatial analysis feature of Computer Vision lets you to analyze real-time streaming video to understand spatial relationships between people and their movement through physical environments. Spatial analysis is a Docker container you can use on-premises.
Read API v3.1 Public Preview adds OCR for Japanese
Computer Vision's Read API v3.1 public preview adds these capabilities:
OCR for Japanese language
For each text line, indicate whether the appearance is Handwriting or Print style, along with a confidence score (Latin languages only).
For a multi-page document extract text only for selected pages or page range.
This preview version of the Read API supports English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish languages.
See the Read API overview to learn more.
July 2020
Read API v3.1 Public Preview with OCR for Simplified Chinese
Computer Vision's Read API v3.1 public preview adds support for Simplified Chinese.
- This preview version of the Read API supports English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish languages.
See the Read API overview to learn more.
May 2020
Computer Vision API v3.0 entered General Availability, with updates to Read API:
- Support for English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
- Improved accuracy
- Confidence score for each extracted word
- New output format
March 2020
- TLS 1.2 is now enforced for all HTTP requests to this service. For more information, see Azure Cognitive Services security.
January 2020
Read API 3.0 Public Preview
You now have the option to use version 3.0 of the Read API to extract printed or handwritten text from images. Compared to earlier versions, 3.0 provides:
- Improved accuracy
- New output format
- Confidence score for each extracted word
- Support for both Spanish and English languages with the additional language parameter
Follow an Extract text quickstart to get starting using the 3.0 API.