Like I said in my previous article, the power of Microsoft Cognitive Services is amazing. With just minimal effort having machine learning at your fingertips is extremely useful. I wanted to dive even deeper in Cognitive Services and was intrigued by the Entity Linking Intelligence Service. I already knew the Computer Vision API could do some OCR and I wanted to combine these to try something that I already thought of years ago.
When you visit a museum and you look at a painting, 9 out of 10 times there’s a sign next to it with some information about it. Although many art experts will know exactly what painting technique is used, who the artist is, why he painted it etc., I’ll be needing more information than what’s on that sign. This is where Entity Linking will come in useful.
Once again we’ll be using Xamarin.Forms with a focus on iOS (but Android and/or UWP will work the same way). The source code can be found on Github.
Let’s see if the combination of these cognitive services can help us to achieve this goal!