Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.
Cloud Developer Advocate

  Reading, UK

See me soon at:
NDC London
FSharp Exchange
Techorama BE

My book:
Xamarin In Action

My podcast:
The Jim And Tonic Show
The Jim And Tonic Show on iTunes

Contact me:
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  The Jim And Tonic Show
  GitHub
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  Email
  CV

Save your users from typing with AI 🤖

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, xamarin.forms, AI, cognitive services, OCR, Text recognition

I've been playing a lot with the Azure Custom Vision Service - a great service to build image classification and object detection models with just a few images. To make it easier to test my models, I wanted to build a mobile app that connects to a custom vision project and uses that to classify or detect objects in images captured using the camera.…

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Face identification with Azure Cognitive Services Face API

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, AI, azure, cognitive services, xamarin.forms, nuget, technology, api, faceapi

Recently I've been playing with a lot AI and seeing how it can be used in mobile apps to enhance the experience offered to the user. Currently I am playing with facial recognition using the Azure Cognitive Services Face API. This is a stupidly powerful API that can do a LOT of different things: Detect faces in images Analyze those faces to detect c…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.ios, xamarin.android, xamarin.forms, Tensorflow, AI, CoreML, nuget, custom vision, cognitive services, azure, technology

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. In the second part I accessed this model from a Xamarin app, so that I could use the ca…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 4, using the models offline on Android

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin.android, Android, xamarin, Tensorflow, AI, custom vision, cognitive services, azure

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. In the second part I accessed this model from a Xamarin app, so that I could use the ca…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 3, using the models offline in iOS

Featured Jim Bennett technology, xamarin, AI, CoreML, azure, cognitive services, custom vision, Porg, Image classifier, iOS

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. In the second part I accessed this model from a Xamarin app, so that I could use the ca…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 2, using the model

Featured Jim Bennett azure, cognitive services, technology, xamarin, xamarin.forms, Porg, custom vision

In the first part of this post I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. Although this works, it's a long winded way of using the model. Ideally I'd want it in a…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 1, creating the model

Featured Jim Bennett azure, Technology, AI, cognitive services, Image classifier, Porg

Prefer to watch instead of read? - https://youtu.be/3sjInlJcpBs It's currently just after Christmas, and my 4 year old daughter has received a fair few cuddly toys from Santa. These bring her total collection up to way too many, and like most parents I have a hard time remembering all their names, especially the least favorite ones that rarely come…

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Save your users from typing with AI 🤖

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, xamarin.forms, AI, cognitive services, OCR, Text recognition

I've been playing a lot with the Azure Custom Vision Service - a great service to build image classification and object detection models with just a few images. To make it easier to test my models, I wanted to build a mobile app that connects to a custom vision project and uses that to classify or detect objects in images captured using the camera.…

Read More

Face identification with Azure Cognitive Services Face API

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, AI, azure, cognitive services, xamarin.forms, nuget, technology, api, faceapi

Recently I've been playing with a lot AI and seeing how it can be used in mobile apps to enhance the experience offered to the user. Currently I am playing with facial recognition using the Azure Cognitive Services Face API. This is a stupidly powerful API that can do a LOT of different things: Detect faces in images Analyze those faces to detect c…

Read More

Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin, xamarin.ios, xamarin.android, xamarin.forms, Tensorflow, AI, CoreML, nuget, custom vision, cognitive services, azure, technology

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. In the second part I accessed this model from a Xamarin app, so that I could use the ca…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 4, using the models offline on Android

Featured Jim Bennett xamarin.android, Android, xamarin, Tensorflow, AI, custom vision, cognitive services, azure

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. In the second part I accessed this model from a Xamarin app, so that I could use the ca…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 3, using the models offline in iOS

Featured Jim Bennett technology, xamarin, AI, CoreML, azure, cognitive services, custom vision, Porg, Image classifier, iOS

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. In the second part I accessed this model from a Xamarin app, so that I could use the ca…

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Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 2, using the model

Featured Jim Bennett azure, cognitive services, technology, xamarin, xamarin.forms, Porg, custom vision

In the first part of this post I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier to allow me to easily identify my daughters cuddly toys. Once created I tested it by uploading an image and seeing what tags the classifier found for the image. Although this works, it's a long winded way of using the model. Ideally I'd want it in a…

Read More

Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 1, creating the model

Featured Jim Bennett azure, Technology, AI, cognitive services, Image classifier, Porg

Prefer to watch instead of read? - https://youtu.be/3sjInlJcpBs It's currently just after Christmas, and my 4 year old daughter has received a fair few cuddly toys from Santa. These bring her total collection up to way too many, and like most parents I have a hard time remembering all their names, especially the least favorite ones that rarely come…

Read More