Venue: Hive VR Mall Chennai
Date : 10th March, 2019
Timings: 10.00 a.m.- 5.00 pm
Students: Undergraduate Students, Open Event
The kickstart of Texus’2019, Microsoft Workshop on Machine Learning and Video Analysis by Cognitive Services in Azure was held at Hive VR Mall, Chennai on the 10th of March 2019. The workshop saw over 80 participants dwell upon the world of Azure under the guidance of not one but two experienced Microsoft Most Valued Professionals, Mr. KuppurasuNagaraj and Ms. AnagunilaMeganathan. The event started with the brief introduction on the advantages of using Azure Cloud Services and an introduction to the Major League Hacking Community which was the key resource provider for the event.
The students then were guided through a hands-on workshop session which followed a step-by-step procedure to analyze a video by indexing it with the help of the Video Indexer tool. Each video was then split into several parts, allowing students to navigate through the various segments of the indexer tool such as translating the transcript, facial recognition of the people present in the video, selecting a language for the transcript and much more which can programmatically analyze data. After the successful completion of the workshop, the participants then deployed their applications to the server making it available for online use. The innovative session gave the students an insight in the much-in demand Azure Services
