concept-detecting-image-types.md

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Image type detection - Azure AI Vision	Azure AI services	Concepts related to the image type detection feature of the Azure AI Vision API.	PatrickFarley	nitinme	azure-ai-vision	conceptual	01/19/2024	pafarley

Image type detection

With the Analyze Image 3.2 API, Azure AI Vision can analyze the content type of images and indicate whether an image is clip art or a line drawing.

Clip art detection

Azure AI Vision analyzes an image and rates the likelihood of the image being clip art on a scale of 0 to 3, as described in the following table.

Value	Meaning
0	Non-clip-art
1	Ambiguous
2	Normal-clip-art
3	Good-clip-art

Clip art detection examples

The following JSON responses illustrates what Azure AI Vision returns when rating the likelihood of the example images being clip art.

{
    "imageType": {
        "clipArtType": 3,
        "lineDrawingType": 0
    },
    "requestId": "88c48d8c-80f3-449f-878f-6947f3b35a27",
    "metadata": {
        "height": 225,
        "width": 300,
        "format": "Jpeg"
    }
}

{
    "imageType": {
        "clipArtType": 0,
        "lineDrawingType": 0
    },
    "requestId": "a9c8490a-2740-4e04-923b-e8f4830d0e47",
    "metadata": {
        "height": 200,
        "width": 300,
        "format": "Jpeg"
    }
}

Line drawing detection

Azure AI Vision analyzes an image and returns a boolean value indicating whether the image is a line drawing.

Line drawing detection examples

The following JSON responses illustrates what Azure AI Vision returns when indicating whether the example images are line drawings.

{
    "imageType": {
        "clipArtType": 2,
        "lineDrawingType": 1
    },
    "requestId": "6442dc22-476a-41c4-aa3d-9ceb15172f01",
    "metadata": {
        "height": 268,
        "width": 300,
        "format": "Jpeg"
    }
}

{
    "imageType": {
        "clipArtType": 0,
        "lineDrawingType": 0
    },
    "requestId": "98437d65-1b05-4ab7-b439-7098b5dfdcbf",
    "metadata": {
        "height": 200,
        "width": 300,
        "format": "Jpeg"
    }
}

Use the API

The image type detection feature is part of the Analyze Image 3.2 API. You can call this API through a native SDK or through REST calls. Include ImageType in the visualFeatures query parameter. Then, when you get the full JSON response, simply parse the string for the contents of the "imageType" section.

• Quickstart: Vision REST API or client libraries