AWS Machine Learning Blog

Category: Amazon Rekognition

Solution overview

Detect population variance of endangered species using Amazon Rekognition

Our planet faces a global extinction crisis. UN Report shows a staggering number of more than a million species feared to be on the path of extinction. The most common reasons for extinction include loss of habitat, poaching, and invasive species. Several wildlife conservation foundations, research scientists, volunteers, and anti-poaching rangers have been working tirelessly […]

Tips to improve your Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels model

In this post, we discuss best practices to improve the performance of your computer vision models using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels. Rekognition Custom Labels is a fully managed service to build custom computer vision models for image classification and object detection use cases. Rekognition Custom Labels builds off of the pre-trained models in Amazon Rekognition, which […]

Full Y Axis

Detect audio events with Amazon Rekognition

When most people think of using machine learning (ML) with audio data, the use case that usually comes to mind is transcription, also known as speech-to-text. However, there are other useful applications, including using ML to detect sounds. Using software to detect a sound is called audio event detection, and it has a number of […]

Announcing the launch of the model copy feature for Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is a fully managed computer vision service that allows developers to build custom models to classify and identify objects in images that are specific and unique to your business. Rekognition Custom Labels doesn’t require you to have any prior computer vision expertise. For example, you can find your logo in social […]

Use computer vision to measure agriculture yield with Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

In the agriculture sector, the problem of identifying and counting the amount of fruit on trees plays an important role in crop estimation. The concept of renting and leasing a tree is becoming popular, where a tree owner leases the tree every year before the harvest based on the estimated fruit yeild. The common practice […]

CITM solution overivew

Build taxonomy-based contextual targeting using AWS Media Intelligence and Hugging Face BERT

As new data privacy regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, 2017) have come into effect, customers are under increased pressure to monetize media assets while abiding by the new rules. Monetizing media while respecting privacy regulations requires the ability to automatically extract granular metadata from assets like text, images, video, and audio files at […]

Identify rooftop solar panels from satellite imagery using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Renewable resources like sunlight provide a sustainable and carbon neutral mechanism to generate power. Governments in many countries are providing incentives and subsidies to households to install solar panels as part of small-scale renewable energy schemes. This has created a huge demand for solar panels. Reaching out to potential customers at the right time, through […]

Accelerate your identity verification projects using AWS Amplify and Amazon Rekognition sample implementations

Amazon Rekognition allows you to mitigate fraudulent attacks and minimize onboarding friction for legitimate customers through a streamlined identity verification process. This can result in an increase in customer trust and safety. Key capabilities of this solution include: Register a new user using a selfie Register a new user after face match against an ID […]

Analyze and tag assets stored in Veeva Vault PromoMats using Amazon AppFlow and Amazon AI Services

In a previous post, we talked about analyzing and tagging assets stored in Veeva Vault PromoMats using Amazon AI services and the Veeva Vault Platform’s APIs. In this post, we explore how to use Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data from software as a service (SaaS) applications […]

Use AWS AI and ML services to foster accessibility and inclusion of people with a visual or communication impairment

AWS offers a broad set of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services, including a suite of pre-trained, ready-to-use services for developers with no prior ML experience. In this post, we demonstrate how to use such services to build an application that fosters the inclusion of people with a visual or communication impairment, which […]