Tag: HAQM Rekognition

HAQM Rekognition is a deep-learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Using the new HAQM Rekognition face filtering feature, you can now have control over the quality and quantity of faces you can index for face recognition. This saves on […]

Mapillary is a collaborative street-level imagery platform that allows people and organizations to upload geo-tagged photos, which can then be used by customers to improve their mapping systems or applications. Mapillary uses HAQM Rekognition, a deep learning-based image and video analysis service, to enhance their metadata extraction. By using the DetectText operation from HAQM Rekognition, […]

You can easily get started extracting meaningful metadata from your media files by using the Media Analysis Solution on AWS. The Media Analysis Solution provides AWS CloudFormation templates that you can use to start extracting meaningful metadata from your media files within minutes. With a web-based user interface, you can easily upload files and see the metadata that is automatically extracted. This solution uses HAQM Rekognition for facial recognition, HAQM Transcribe to create a transcript, and HAQM Comprehend to run sentiment analysis on the transcript. You can also upload your own images to an HAQM Rekognition collection and train the solution to recognize individuals. In this blog post, we’ll show you step-by step how to launch the solution and upload an image and video. You’ll be able to see firsthand how metadata is seamlessly extracted.

Aella Credit is a financial services company based in West Africa that provides instant loans to individuals with a verifiable source of income in emerging markets by using biometric and employer data. For those in emerging markets, identity verification and validation is one of the major challenges for people who don’t have easy access to […]

Marinus Analytics is a woman-owned company, founded in 2014, that builds AI tools that turn big data into actionable intelligence. They are dedicated to using artificial intelligence, such as the facial recognition features available in HAQM Rekognition, to help find human trafficking victims and reunite them with their families. “We believe that artificial intelligence shouldn’t […]

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. HAQM Rekognition is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Regions. HAQM Rekognition is a deep learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect […]

Thorn is a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping the spread of child sexual abuse material and standing up to child traffickers. Thorn’s tools have been used to identify 5,894 child sex trafficking victims and rescue 103 children where their sexual abuse was recorded and distributed. Using AWS services such as HAQM Rekognition, Thorn has seen […]

This blog shares some brief thoughts on machine learning accuracy and bias. Let’s start with some comments about a recent ACLU blog in which they ran a facial recognition trial. Using Rekognition, the ACLU built a face database using 25,000 publicly available arrest photos and then performed facial similarity searches on that database using public […]

This is a guest post by Joe Monti, Sr. Software Engineer at VidMob. Vidmob is, in their own words, “the world’s leading video creation platform, with innovative technology solutions that enable a network of highly trained creators to develop marketing communications that are insight-driven, personalized, and scalable. VidMob creators are trained to produce the full […]

Open Influence is an end-to-end influencer marketing platform that uses artificial intelligence to enable global brands and agencies to quickly and easily identify relevant influencers.  Influencer marketing has become a popular way for corporate brand marketers to work with influential leaders on social media to reach a specific audience. These influencers are critical in executing […]