Media Services Face Detector retirement and migration

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Warning

Azure Media Services will be retired June 30th, 2024. For more information, see the AMS Retirement Guide.

This article discusses Media Services Face Detector retirement and migration.

Overview

Important

As Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standards outlines, Microsoft is committed to fairness, privacy, security, and transparency with respect to AI systems. To align with these standards, Azure Media Services is retiring the Video Analyzer preset on September 14, 2023. This preset currently allows you to extract multiple video and audio insights from a video file. Customers can replace their current workflows using the more advanced feature set offered by Azure Video Indexer.

Migration steps

There will not be a direct replacement for the Face Detector. If you would like to instead detect people in a video, we recommend updating your applications to use the Video Indexer APIs for detecting observed people and matching observed people to faces and submit a request to get access to the Limited Access program for these features. See the Limited Access policy for more details.

Get help and support

You can contact Media Services with questions or follow our updates by one of the following methods:

• Q & A
• Stack Overflow. Tag questions with azure-media-services.
• @MSFTAzureMedia or use @AzureSupport to request support.
• Open a support ticket through the Azure portal.