Drones, face detection, and Azure IOT

You can control a drone using 20 lines of code. That’s the easy part. However, adding extra features like face or object detection and program the drone to follow and object or a face requires … another 20 lines of code!

During this session we will review how to connect to a drone, how to send and receive commands from the drone, how to read the camera video feed and how to apply AI on top of the camera feed to recognize objects or faces. We will use a simple house drone ($100) and Python. And, when we review some enterprise scenarios, we will use Azure IoT to sync the drone information in IoT mode.

Let’s build this!

Host: Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Gwyn has worked a range of roles in tech including, help desk, sysadmin, cloud engineer, training architect, and now cloud advocate at Microsoft. She has a passion for documenting her learnings and experiences on YouTube, and overall is a huge fan of all things serverless.

Guest Speaker: Bruno Capuano, Microsoft AI MVP
Bruno Capuano leads Innovation at Avanade Canada and has been a Microsoft MVP for the past 14 years. He is an active Microsoft Technologies Community participant, a writer, and a frequent speaker at local and international technology conferences.
Bruno also like to hack new technologies, play the guitar and run. Run a lot, which suddenly started after becoming the dad of the 2 best sons ever.
You can contact him via twitter (@elbruno) or on his blog: http://www.elbruno.com