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#OpenCV – How to convert to grayscale and show a single color an image 🖼️ using Python 🐍

Hi ! Super quick post today with a cool scenario to support my TikTok videos in Spanish (I know 😀): How to convert to grayscale an image and show a single color using python and opencv Here is the output with an original photo from my office and a new image with this effect: Disclaimer:… — read more

Feb 23, 2022
#Event – March AI 🧠 Series at Toronto Reactor

Hi ! March is a month focused on Artificial Intelligence in the Microsoft Reactor. During the full month we will host sessions focused on AI and ML. Sessions Additional Resources — read more

Feb 23, 2022
#OpenCV – How to add a Pencil Sketch effect to an image 🖼️ using Python 🐍

Hi ! Super quick post today with a cool scenario to support my TikTok videos in Spanish (I know 😀): How to add a pencil sketch effect to an image using python and opencv Here is the output with an original photo from my office and a new image with the pencil sketch effect: Sample… — read more

Feb 21, 2022
#OpenCV – How to add a watermark to an image 🖼️ using Python 🐍

Hi ! Super quick post today with a cool scenario to support my TikTok videos in Spanish (I know 😀): How to add a watermark text to an image using python and opencv Here is the output with an original photo from my office and a watermarked one: Sample code: — read more

Feb 20, 2022
#Event – Introduction to GitHub in Visual Studio Code 📝at @msftreactor

Hi ! After a quick poll, the following event was the winner for a live session from Microsoft Reactor: Introduction to GitHub in Visual Studio Code 📝 In this session we will learn how to work with Visual Studio Code and GitHub. We will learn different topics, including authentication, publishing repos, and viewing your repo… — read more

Feb 18, 2022
#OpenCV – Access a local camera 🤳in F# 📝

Hi ! NET is in anniversary mode, and in Dev.to blog, someone asked about these samples in F#. It’s been a while since I wrote some F# code, and this is the perfect excuse to start. Today Post: Access a local camera and show the camera frames in an OpenCV window. In following posts we… — read more

Feb 17, 2022
#OpenCV – Detect and blur faces 😁 using DNN in C#

Hi ! NET is in anniversary mode, so I think it will be a good idea to share some camera samples in C#. For these demos I’m using C# 6 and OpenCVSharp as OpenCV wrapper for .NET. Today post: detect a face using a DNN model and blur the face area. This demo also show… — read more

Feb 16, 2022
#OpenCV – Detect and blur faces 😁 using haar cascades in C#

Hi ! NET is in anniversary mode, so I think it will be a good idea to share some camera samples in C#. For these demos I’m using C#, NET 6 and OpenCVSharp as OpenCV wrapper for .NET. Today post: detect a face using haar cascades and blur the face area. This demo also show… — read more

Feb 15, 2022
#OpenCV – Detect and blur faces 😁 using DNN in Python 🐍

Hi ! Quick post today: detect a face using a pretrained DNN model and blur the face area. Easy to implement, and also easy to read: Code below That’s it, sample using DNN. Next challenge will be to do this in F#. — read more

Feb 14, 2022
#PowerPoint – Integrate your live camera 🎦 feed in your slides

Hi ! Wow, I opened PowerPoint today to check my slides for a presentation later today and I find a new super cool feature that allow me to add a live camera feed into my slides. This is part of a set of new features for Office Insiders and it’s called: CAMEO. You can read… — read more

Feb 11, 2022
#OpenCV – Detect and blur faces 😁 using haar cascades in Python 🐍

Hi ! Quick post today: detect a face using haar cascades and blur the face area. Easy to implement, and also easy to read: Code below Important: Haar cascades are easy to implement and learn, however, not recommented as a good solution to detect faces. — read more

Feb 10, 2022
#Windows11 – Microsoft Power Toys, 🖱️ Mouse Utilities rocks 🤘🤘🤘

Hi ! If you are working with Windows, the Microsoft Power Toys are kind of a #MustHave. And, the set of new mouse features, in the latest release improves a lot the experience while doing presentations, sharing screen, and more. We already know the press CTRL twice to locate your mouse, which is super useful… — read more

Feb 3, 2022
How #GitHubCoPilot 🤖 is helping in my daily work at Microsoft on March @MSFTReactor

Hi ! March is our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning month. I decided to share a little about my experiences working with Visual Studio Code and CoPilot. That’s why on March I’ll share 5 different 30 minutes sessions, with my experiences working with Python C++ C# Markdown Using CoPilot to control a Roomba 🤖 !… — read more

Feb 1, 2022
#AzureML – Sample 🐍 Python app using a WebCam to perform Image Analysis from an image classification AzureML HTTP REST Endpoint

Hi ! In my previous post I wrote How to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. How to use the custom data set and how to train an image classification model. How to publish the model to be used as a WebService / HTTP REST… — read more

Jan 31, 2022
#AzureML – Sample 🐍 Python app to consume a image classification AzureML HTTP REST Endpoint

Hi ! In my previous post I wrote How to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. How to use the custom data set and how to train an image classification model. How to publish the model to be used as a WebService / HTTP REST… — read more

Jan 27, 2022
#AzureML – Creating a HTTP Rest Endpoint to consume an AzureML Designer based on the DenseNet template 🎨

Hi ! In my previous post I wrote about how to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. The second post was about how to use the custom data set and how to train the model. Today let’s publish the model to be used as a… — read more

Jan 26, 2022
#AzureML – Using a custom images 🖼️ dataset on the AzureML Designer with the DenseNet template 🎨

Hi ! In my previous post I wrote about how to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. Today I’ll share the steps to use it. Let’s start by creating a project based on the “Image Classification using DenseNet” template. Next step is to select the… — read more

Jan 25, 2022
#AzureML – How to create a dataset with images to be used on the AzureML Designer DenseNet samples

Hi ! I didn’t found this online, so I decided to write it down. How to create a dataset with images to be used on the Azure Machine Learning designer, when training a model using the DenseNet prefab and samples. Let’s start defining which Azure Storage Account we will use. I’ll use the default one.… — read more

Jan 24, 2022
#Python 🐍- Working with Environment Variables and python-dotnenv

Hi ! The Microsoft Cloud Advocates team is great and, hey everyday I learn something new. A couple of days ago we were talking about working with Environment Variables and Virtual Environments. I wrote several times about working with Virtual Envs, like WindowsTerminal and Anaconda, start an Anaconda Virtual Environment How to List and Remove… — read more

Jan 19, 2022
#AzureFunctions ⚡- Pip and TLS/SSL error on Debugging with #Python 🐍

Hi! There is something wrong with my current development environment. I have an Azure Function with these dependencies: And I got this error when I press F5 / Run the project in local mode. By default, Azure Functions works with a Python virtual environment. This helps to isolate our current dev environment, and also to… — read more

Jan 18, 2022