This Hackathon is designed for beginners. No prior experience is necessary.
Azure provides powerful AI tools, wrapped up in APIs that you can use from your apps to add intelligence without being an AI expert. In this hands-on workshop you will build a Python app that takes advantage of one of these APIs to detect emotions in faces, alerting you if you have a sad face too often. This app will be in two parts, one part that runs on the desktop and takes photos, and another that runs in the cloud to analyse photos and store the emotions detected.
- Python 3.7 runtime (not the latest 3.8 as not all required libraries are available yet). We recommend Python 3.7.4 for this workshop. Download
- Microsoft Azure Account (Azure Portal)
- Don't have one? Sign up for Azure for Students | $100 in Azure for 12 months with free tier of services - no credit card required with academic verification
- Visual Studio Code (Download)
- The Python Extension for Visual Studio Code. This can be installed from inside VS Code using the Extensions tab.
- The Azure App Service Extension for Visual Studio Code. This can be installed from inside VS Code using the Extensions tab.
- The Azure Cosmos DB Extension for Visual Studio Code. This can be installed from inside VS Code using the Extensions tab.
We will cover these Azure technologies.
- Azure App Service | Easily host your web application or API backend on Azure
- Cognitive Services | Powerful APIs that easily allow you to add AI to your application
- CosmosDB | A NoSQL datastore
- Python 3.7
- Flask | Web application framework
- OpenCV | Open Source Computer Vision Library
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