Computer Vision on AWS

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Interacting with Amazon Rekognition

A picture is worth a thousand words because it captures so much context. Imagine looking at a recent photo or video of a family trip. Your two kids are playing on the beach with the dog, and it’s sunny and warm. Their suits are still dry, so this must have occurred near your arrival time. There’s an endless ocean of contextually sensitive details your eyes can detect.

Since computers don’t have eyes, we need to use artificial intelligence to mimic this capability. Amazon Rekognition’s mission is to make computer vision accessible to every developer. With Rekognition, you can build faster by leveraging its APIs to access high-quality results. The built-in APIs can detect the following within photos and images: ...