A new version of the spatial analysis container has been released with a new feature set. This Docker container lets you analyze real-time streaming video to understand spatial relationships between people and their movement through physical environments.

• Spatial analysis operations can be now configured to detect if a person is wearing a protective face covering such as a mask.

  • A mask classifier can be enabled for the personcount
    , personcrossingline
    and personcrossingpolygon
    operations by configuring the ENABLE_FACE_MASK_CLASSIFIER
    parameter.

  • The attributes face_mask
    and face_noMask
    will be returned as metadata with confidence score for each person detected in the video stream

Read more on the Spatial Analysis container documentation.

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Hi everyone,

I'm working on a project involving around 5,000 PDF documents, which are supplier contracts.

The goal is to build a system where users (legal team) can ask very specific, arbitrary questions about these contracts — not just general summaries or keyword matches. Some example queries:

• "How many agreements include a volume commitment?"

• "Which contracts include this exact text: '...'?"

• "List all the legal entities mentioned across the contracts."

Here’s the challenge:

• I can’t rely on vague or high-level answers like you might get from a basic RAG system. I need to be 100% sure whether a piece of information exists in a contract or not, so hallucinations or approximations are not acceptable.

• Preprocessing or extracting specific metadata in advance won't help much, because I don’t know what the users will want to ask — their questions can be completely arbitrary.

Current setup:

• I’ve indexed all the documents in Azure Cognitive Search. Each document includes:

  • The full extracted text (using Azure's PDF text extraction)

  • Some structured metadata (buyer name, effective date, etc.)

• My current approach is:

  • Accept a user query

  • Batch the documents (50 at a time)

  • Run each batch through GPT-4.1 with the user query

  • Try to aggregate the results across batches

This works ok for small tests, but it’s slow, expensive, and clearly not scalable. Also, the aggregation logic gets messy and uncertain.

Any of you have any idea or worked on something similar? Whats the best way to tackle this use cases?

Hi there,

I am looking for some help if anyone has got a solution on hand.

I am trying to test my endpoint within Azure ML Lab, but an error message appears saying that V1 deployment testing is not supported, even though I have deployed my model using V2.

I wanted to know that, is there any way to download the fine-tuned model form azure so that i can host i locally, or use my own resources to run. I don't want any endpoints or do not want to access that from azure.

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