#AZURE – A detailed sample of thumbnail generation and #SmartCropping with #VisionAPI

Hello

In yesterday’s post I wrote on how to create thumbnails using Vision API in Project Oxford. While there are several options in the .Net community to create thumbnails, this stands for creating the miniature bearing in mind the main content of the original image.

For this, this process uses VisionAPI capabilities to detect “the main areas” in the image, and using this as source it create the required thumbnail. This is important when the image we ask does not respect the original format. For example to move from an image with 4:3 aspect ratio to a 16:9 format.

In the yesterday’s sample, I used as original image a picture of Rapunzel and Martina at Disney in Portrait mode with a size of 346 x 518 pixels. Then I generated several miniatures with the following sizes

• 120 x 120
• 240 x 120
• 120 x 240
• 240 x 120

The 120 x 240 thumbnail is a nice example on how to change from Portrait to Landscape, SmartCropping capacity has remained as the main area of the image the faces of the people.
The following example uses a photo in Landscape mode of size 3264 by 1836 pixels as the original image.

The generated thumbnails are

• 120 x 120
• 240 x 120
• 360 x 120
• 120 x 240
• 240 x 120
• 360 x 120

And in them you can see as to when requesting a Portrait format, has decided to keep the focus on the central face and the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

 

The source code is avilable in GitHub https://github.com/elbruno/ProjectOxford

Greetings @ Madrid !

El Bruno

References

• Project Oxford
  • Project Oxford Emotion APIs
  • Project Oxford Face APIs
  • Project Oxford Vision APIs
• My Azure ML Vision APIs series
  • Creating thumbnails using Vision API
  • Add a frame for each detected text
  • VisionAPI implementation for image analysis
  • Adding Vision API capabilities in our apps
• My Azure ML Emotion APIs series
  • Display Emotions API and Face API in the detected face frame
  • Hello Emotions! Face APIs and Emotions APIs are the perfect combo to analyze people moods!
  • Complete sample of Face APIs and Emotions APIs
• My Azure ML Face APIs series
  • Face APIs in Azure
  • Hello Face: Face APIs in a Console App
  • Hello Face: Face APIs in a WPF App
  • Hello Face: Face APIs in a Windows 8.1 App
  • Hello Face: Frame in each detected face in Windows 8.1 App
  • Hello Face: Windows 8.1 Apps and MVVM
  • Hello Face: Webcam and Windows 8.1 Apps