CAn Amazon Rekognition do this

Question

I have a photography business and wish to make images searchable using facial recognition.

The method that I envision to do this would be the user uploads a photo of themselves to our website then **magic happens** and any images of them that appear in our shopping cart are displayed.

Am I correct in thinking that Amazon Rekognition can do the heavy lifting on this and what would I need to do?

As is probably already apparent, I am not a programmer, so I would appreciate if someone would be kind and help me figure out what needs to be figured out so that I can then approach my developer.  I have only learned of the existence of Amazon Rekognition about 30 minutes ago. :-)

Cheers Craig

Accepted Answer

Hi Craig, yes Amazon Rekognition can help you with the face recognition using the Collection feature:

"Amazon Rekognition lets you use an input face to search for matches in a collection of stored faces. You start by storing information about detected faces in server-side containers called "collections". Collections store both individual faces and users (several faces of the same person). Individual faces are stored as face vectors, a mathematical representation of the face (not an actual image of the face). Different images of the same person can be used to create and store multiple face vectors in the same collection. You can then aggregate multiple face vectors of the same person to create a user vector. User vectors can offer higher face search accuracy with more robust depictions, containing varying degrees of lighting, sharpness, pose, appearance, etc."

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/collections.html

Please check also the prices here to understand if it's in line with your business case:
https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/?nc1=h_ls

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Answer

Hi Alexandru,

Thanks so much for your response.

I will look at the links.  May I ask you if I understand this correctly then, the process is that my users would upload their image to our site and this would deposit it somewhere within AWS where Amazon Rekognition would then process it.

Then, it would search the repository of images for that particular event which it has already converted into a searchable face database as described above and locate matches - return those results to our shopping cart with would then display those results.

Cheers,

Craig

CAn Amazon Rekognition do this

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