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Category: Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based service that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy of moderation categories, such as Explicit Nudity, Suggestive, Violence, and Visually Disturbing. You can now detect six new categories: […]

Using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels and Amazon A2I for detecting pizza slices and augmenting predictions

Customers need machine learning (ML) models to detect objects that are interesting for their business. In most cases doing so is hard as these models need thousands of labeled images and deep learning expertise.  Generating this data can take months to gather, and can require large teams of labelers to prepare it for use. In […]

Build alerting and human review for images using Amazon Rekognition and Amazon A2I

The volume of user-generated content (UGC) and third-party content has been increasing substantially in sectors like social media, ecommerce, online advertising, and photo sharing. However, such content needs to be reviewed to ensure that end-users aren’t exposed to inappropriate or offensive material, such as nudity, violence, adult products, or disturbing images. Today, some companies simply […]

Training a custom single class object detection model with Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Customers often need to analyze their images to find objects that are unique to their business needs. In many cases, this may be a single object, like identifying the company’s logo, finding a particular industrial or agricultural defect, or locating a specific event like a hurricane in satellite scans. In this post, we showcase how […]

How REA Group implemented automated image compliance with Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based image and vision analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos, and detect any inappropriate content. Amazon Rekognition text detection enables you to recognize and extract textual content from images and videos. For example, in image sharing and social media […]

Analyzing and tagging assets stored in Veeva Vault PromoMats using Amazon AI services

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry, which offers products that serve multiple domains ranging from clinical, regulatory, quality, and more. Veeva’s Vault Platform manages both content and data in a single platform […]

Building a smart garage door opener with AWS DeepLens and Amazon Rekognition

April 2023 Update: Starting January 31, 2024, you will no longer be able to access AWS DeepLens through the AWS management console, manage DeepLens devices, or access any projects you have created. To learn more, refer to these frequently asked questions about AWS DeepLens end of life. Many industries, including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare, are adopting […]

Announcing Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, a new feature of Amazon Rekognition that enables customers to build their own specialized machine learning (ML) based image analysis capabilities to detect unique objects and scenes integral to their specific use case. For example, customers using Amazon Rekognition to detect machine parts from images […]

Exploring images on social media using Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Athena

If you’re like most companies, you wish to better understand your customers and your brand image. You’d like to track the success of your marketing campaigns, and the topics of interest—or frustration—for your customers. Social media promises to be a rich source of this kind of information, and many companies are beginning to collect, aggregate, […]

Adding AI to your applications with ready-to-use models from AWS Marketplace

Machine learning (ML) lets enterprises unlock the true potential of their data, automate decisions, and transform their business processes to deliver exponential value to their customers. To help you take advantage of ML, Amazon SageMaker provides the ability to build, train, and deploy ML models quickly. Until recently, if you used Amazon SageMaker, you could […]