Artificial Intelligence

Alex Burkleaux

Author: Alex Burkleaux

Alex Burkleaux is a Sr. AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. She helps customers use AI Services to build media solutions. Her industry experience includes over-the-top video, database management systems, and reliability engineering.

Build character consistent storyboards using Amazon Nova in Amazon Bedrock – Part 1

The art of storyboarding stands as the cornerstone of modern content creation, weaving its essential role through filmmaking, animation, advertising, and UX design. Though traditionally, creators have relied on hand-drawn sequential illustrations to map their narratives, today’s AI foundation models (FMs) are transforming this landscape. FMs like Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel offer […]

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Automate video insights for contextual advertising using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) is a new managed feature powered by FMs in Amazon Bedrock. BDA extracts structured outputs from unstructured content—including documents, images, video, and audio—while alleviating the need for complex custom workflows. In this post, we demonstrate how BDA automatically extracts rich video insights such as chapter segments and audio segments, detects text in scenes, and classifies Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) taxonomies, and then uses these insights to build a nonlinear ads solution to enhance contextual advertising effectiveness.