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You're reading from Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook Build applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788390828

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Praveen Kumar Sreeram

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Acknowledgments

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Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Accelerate Your Cloud Application Development Using Azure Function Triggers and Bindings FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Notifications Using SendGrid and Twilio Services

3. Seamless Integration of Azure Functions with Other Azure Services

4. Understanding the Integrated Developer Experience of Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions

5. Exploring Testing Tools for the Validation of Azure Functions

6. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Serverless Services

7. Code Reusability and Refactoring the Code in Azure Functions

8. Developing Reliable and Durable Serverless Applications Using Durable Functions

9. Implement Best Practices for Azure Functions

10. Implement Continuous Integration and Deployment of Azure Functions Using Visual Studio Team Services

Using Cognitive Services to locate faces from the images

In this recipe, you will learn how to use the Computer Vision API to detect faces within an image. We will be locating the faces and capture their coordinates and save them in different Azure Table Storage based on the gender.

Getting ready

To get started, we need to create a Computer Vision API and configure the keys to access the API in the Azure Function app.

Make sure that you have Azure Storage Explorer installed and have also configured to access the storage where you are uploading the Blobs.

Creating a new Computer Vision API account

Log in to Azure Management portal. Click on the + icon, choose AI + Cognitive Services, and choose Computer Vision API, as shown in the following screenshot:

The next step is to provide all the details to create an account, as shown in the following screenshot. At the time of writing this, Computer Vision API has just two pricing tiers where I have selected the free one F0, which allows 20 API calls per...