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Category: Amazon Rekognition

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How Amazon Shopping uses Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation to review harmful images in product reviews

Customers are increasingly turning to product reviews to make informed decisions in their shopping journey, whether they’re purchasing everyday items like a kitchen towel or making major purchases like buying a car. These reviews have transformed into an essential source of information, enabling shoppers to access the opinions and experiences of other customers. As a […]

Build and train computer vision models to detect car positions in images using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Rekognition

Computer vision (CV) is one of the most common applications of machine learning (ML) and deep learning. Use cases range from self-driving cars, content moderation on social media platforms, cancer detection, and automated defect detection. Amazon Rekognition is a fully managed service that can perform CV tasks like object detection, video segment detection, content moderation, […]

Safe image generation and diffusion models with Amazon AI content moderation services

Generative AI technology is improving rapidly, and it’s now possible to generate text and images based on text input. Stable Diffusion is a text-to-image model that empowers you to create photorealistic applications. You can easily generate images from text using Stable Diffusion models through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The following are examples of input texts and […]

Introducing an image-to-speech Generative AI application using Amazon SageMaker and Hugging Face

Vision loss comes in various forms. For some, it’s from birth, for others, it’s a slow descent over time which comes with many expiration dates: The day you can’t see pictures, recognize yourself, or loved ones faces or even read your mail. In our previous blogpost Enable the Visually Impaired to Hear Documents using Amazon […]

Build an image search engine with Amazon Kendra and Amazon Rekognition

In this post, we discuss a machine learning (ML) solution for complex image searches using Amazon Kendra and Amazon Rekognition. Specifically, we use the example of architecture diagrams for complex images due to their incorporation of numerous different visual icons and text. With the internet, searching and obtaining an image has never been easier. Most […]

Detect real and live users and deter bad actors using Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness

Financial services, the gig economy, telco, healthcare, social networking, and other customers use face verification during online onboarding, step-up authentication, age-based access restriction, and bot detection. These customers verify user identity by matching the user’s face in a selfie captured by a device camera with a government-issued identity card photo or preestablished profile photo. They […]

Automatic image cropping with Amazon Rekognition

Digital publishers are continuously looking for ways to streamline and automate their media workflows in order to generate and publish new content as rapidly as they can. Many publishers have a large library of stock images that they use for their articles. These images can be reused many times for different stories, especially when the […]

Automate Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels model training and deployment using AWS Step Functions

With Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, you can have Amazon Rekognition train a custom model for object detection or image classification specific to your business needs. For example, Rekognition Custom Labels can find your logo in social media posts, identify your products on store shelves, classify machine parts in an assembly line, distinguish healthy and infected […]

How to decide between Amazon Rekognition image and video API for video moderation

Almost 80% of today’s web content is user-generated, creating a deluge of content that organizations struggle to analyze with human-only processes. The availability of consumer information helps them make decisions, from buying a new pair of jeans to securing home loans. In a recent survey, 79% of consumers stated they rely on user videos, comments, […]

Chronomics detects COVID-19 test results with Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Chronomics is a tech-bio company that uses biomarkers—quantifiable information taken from the analysis of molecules—alongside technology to democratize the use of science and data to improve the lives of people. Their goal is to analyze biological samples and give actionable information to help you make decisions—about anything where knowing more about the unseen is important. […]