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Jeff Holmes
Jul 20, 2017Copper Contributor
Animal behavior detection
I was wondering if it's possible to use Azure to detect specific behaviors in animal lab video. We are interested in detecting certain types of movements in lab mice.
Kent Gaardmand
Jul 24, 2017Steel Contributor
Hi Jeff
Yes and No, this is not something Azure can do out of the box.
What you are looking for is Machine learning i guess or AI, you would have to have programmers help you create the software that could detect what is a dog, and what is behavior and so forth.
But Azure could provide the horse power needed to handle huge amounts of data once you have the learning process figured out.
Jeff Holmes
Jul 24, 2017Copper Contributor
Hi Kent,
Thanks for your reply. Do you know how complex it is to program something fairly basic? We don't need to recognize an animal itself, more like certain patterns of movements (e.g. leg movements in rat pups). I have some programming background and wondered how complicated if might be to use something like the Azure Video API which has some Motion Detection APIs.
Thanks for your reply. Do you know how complex it is to program something fairly basic? We don't need to recognize an animal itself, more like certain patterns of movements (e.g. leg movements in rat pups). I have some programming background and wondered how complicated if might be to use something like the Azure Video API which has some Motion Detection APIs.
- Kent GaardmandJul 24, 2017Steel ContributorHi Jeff
I'm an infrastructure guy ☺️, and must admit the video api was unknown to me.
Have you seen this https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/master/articles/cognitive-services/Video/GetStarted.md- Jeff HolmesJul 24, 2017Copper ContributorThanks, I'll take a look!