Slides from my session in Global Azure Bootcamp! Video Indexer is an offering from Azure which allows to unlock insights from video content. The video indexer API also allows developers to create intelligent apps on top of insights extracted from the videos.

1. MS Azure Video
Indexer
Intuition, Insights and
Applications

2. 1. Significance of Video in Pre-quantum era
2. Evolution of Video as the most insightful data
3. Why do we need insights from the video
4. What are microsoft cognitive services
5. What is azure video indexer
6. What is azure video indexer composed of
7. Capabilities of the Azure Video Indexer [ In terms of what all
insights it provides ]
8. Demo on the Video Indexer
9. Demo on the Custom Person Model
10. Demo on the Rest API
11. Glossary

3. Snapchatters watch 10
billion videos a day
83% of businesses
believe that video gives
them a good ROI.
would take 5 million
years to watch the
amount of video across
global IP network each
month in 2021
Video in an email leads
to 200-300% increase in
the click-through rates
Interesting Facts!

4. Cisco Predictions to consider !
Video will represent 80% of all Internet traffic by 2021
There will be nearly 1.9 billion Internet video users by 2021
They’ll be watching 3 trillion minutes of video per month by 2021

5. The analog video era!
cathode ray tube
(CRT) television
systems
Video was
originally
exclusively a live
technology
first practical video
tape recorder (VTR).
In 1951
in 1971, Sony began
selling
videocassette
recorder (VCR)
videotapes cost US
$300 per one-hour
reel
Video recorders
were sold for US
$50,000 in 1956

6. The digital video era!
The use of digital
techniques in video
created digital
video
higher quality and,
much lower cost
invention of the
DVD in 1997
analog video a
legacy technology
in most parts of the
world
personal
computers and
smartphones to
capture, store, edit
Blu-ray Disc in
2006

7. And the post digital era!

8. Shift in Thought Process [ Pre-Post digital ]
1. How do I create video it costs 100 of $
2. Wish I could make my video
3. Video ad is impossible / expensive, let’s go
for a paper advertisement
4. Someday I’ll be able to capture the beauty
of nature
5. I need video
1. How do I find my video in 100s of Videos
2. But how do I know where I’m in this 3
hours long video
3. I want this ad to popup just after a happy
emotion scene
4. I want to detect the object in my video
5. I want actionable insights out of my video

9. How insights can be utilised?
Engagement and
Targeted Marketing
Intelligence in Apps
Search and Discovery

10. What are cognitive services?
1. Set of APIs and SDKs
2. Help developers build ML / AI capable
applications
3. No AI or data science skills or knowledge
required
4. enables developers to add cognitive features
5. services are exposed to devs via rest APIs

11. Purpose of cognitive services?
The goal of Azure Cognitive Services
is to help developers create
applications that can see, hear,
speak, understand, and even begin
to reason

12. Categories of cognitive services?
1. Vision
2. Speech
3. Language
4. Search
5. Knowledge

13. Video Indexer

16. Capabilities of Video Indexer
1. Vision
2. Speech
3. Language
4. Search
5. Knowledge

17. 1. Compliance
ISO 27001,
ISO 27018,
SOC 1,2,3,
HIPAA,
FedRAMP,
PCI, and
HITRUST certified

19. Potential Applications?
1. Employee mood analytics using the live stream from the on-campus
cctv cameras
2. Pizza store automatic reviews based on expressions
3. Being able to predict the state of mind of students in the school
4. Personal Digital Robotic Assistants capable of skimming through
books and newspapers in seconds
5. Smoke and Fire detection and prevention

20. Limitations !
1. Language support
2. Music and Songs
3. Lacks training enough to be able to
detect any object on the planet

21. General FAQs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/video-indexer/f
aq

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