How to Create a Dystopian Future at Home with Python, OpenCV, and Microsoft Azure

Derek Andre Articles, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Python, Tutorial 2 Comments

Facial recognition is both amazing and horrifying. Some amazing things it can do is the ability to find missing children or seniors, using your face to unlock your phone, and being able to board an airplane faster.

In this blog post, I want to highlight some powerful tools and platforms that allow you to create distributed facial recognition systems with OpenCV and Azureโ€™s Cognitive Services. By the end of this post, you will have a working face detector using OpenCV that can communicate with Azureโ€™s Cognitive Services.

I used Python 3.7.4 and pip 19.2.3 for this project. You can view the code from this blog at https://github.com/dcandre/Dystopian-Future-At-Home.

Scripting with Python and AutoHotkey

Kevin Wisniewski Articles, Automation, Development Technologies & Tools, Python 7 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.After I began programming, I started noticing that some of the things I was doing on my computer at home were repetitive and could …

KC User Group Tour, Part 3: Pythonistas

Luke Patterson Articles, Community, Development Technologies & Tools, Python 5 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.And now for something completely different… Me: What is the first thing I need to know about Python? Pythonista: Ok, first, open a command …