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Microsoft Cognitive Services ImageAnalysis API

Analyze images for visual features

Microsoft Cognitive Services ImageAnalysis API is one of 5 APIs that Microsoft Cognitive Services publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Image Analysis. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 16 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2023-04-01-preview.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{endpoint}.

1 operations 1 paths 16 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2023-04-01-preview
Base URL
https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/
Authentication
API Key, OAuth 2.0
Contact
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Microsoft Cognitive Services ImageAnalysis API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key (subscription_key). It supports OAuth 2.0 (azure_auth) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope. By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • subscription_key — Cognitive Services subscription key
  • azure_auth — Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

ImageAnalysis 1

Analyze images for visual features

POST
/computervision/imageanalysis:analyze
Analyze an image
imageAnalysis_analyze 6 params body → 200default

Schemas 16

The contract defines 16 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ImageAnalysisResult (9 properties), BoundingBox (4 properties), ReadResult (3 properties), DenseCaption (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DetectedObject
object
3 properties
ErrorResponse
object
1 property
BoundingBox
object
4 properties
TagsResult
object
1 property
PeopleResult
object
1 property
SmartCropsResult
object
1 property
DenseCaptionsResult
object
1 property
DetectedPerson
object
2 properties
ImageMetadata
object
2 properties
Tag
object
2 properties
CaptionResult
object
2 properties
ImageUrl
object
1 property 1 required
ImageAnalysisResult
object
9 properties
DenseCaption
object
3 properties
ReadResult
object
3 properties
ObjectsResult
object
1 property

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

microsoft-cognitive-services-imageanalysis-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Microsoft Cognitive Services publishes across the network.

Azure AI Vision API
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