Amazon Rekognition is a fully managed computer vision service that allows developers to easily add image and video analysis to their applications using highly scalable, deep learning technology.
Crucially, no machine learning expertise is required to use it. You simply supply an image or video to the API, and the service returns a JSON response containing the analysis.
Rekognition can identify thousands of objects (e.g., cars, trees, dogs) and scenes (e.g., beach, city) within an image. It also provides a bounding box showing exactly where the object is located in the image.
It can detect faces in an image and analyze attributes such as:
You can use Rekognition to build facial recognition systems. You create a "Collection" (a database of faces), index photos of your employees, and then pass a new image of a person at a security gate to see if it matches an existing employee in the database.
Rekognition can extract printed and handwritten text from images. This is incredibly useful for processing license plates, street signs, or parsing scanned documents.
If you are building a social media app, you can pass user-uploaded images to Rekognition to automatically detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive content (like violence or nudity) before it is published to your platform.
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