"Amazon Rekognition" service that enabled strong image analysis using deep learning appeared

One of the new services Amazon announced at its event "AWS re: Invent 2016"Amazon Rekognition"is. Amazon Rekognition is a service that features powerful image analysis such as what is shown in the image using deep learning technology, and whether the person of the subject is laughing.

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Amazon Rekognition - Deep learning-based image analysis
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Amazon Rekognition, which enables advanced image analysis using deep learning, is one service that can be used with AWS. At the time of article creationDemonstration function releasedThe following is the result of analyzing the image of the dog using one of the demonstration functions "Object and Scene Detection". The analysis result of the image is composed of "label" and "precision", four labels "animal" "dog" "golden retriever" "pet" on the right side of the image and "97.9% The accuracy of "is displayed.


The following is a trial of "Facial Analysis (face analysis)" with the demonstration function. Analysis results include labels such as "looks like a face", "appearing to be female", "smiling", "appears to be happy", "mouth is closed" You can see that advanced image analysis is being done.


In addition to the above functions, "Face Comparison" which analyzes whether the faces in the two images are the same person ... ...


There is "Facial Recognition" which picks up only the same person from multiple images.


Amazon Rekognition can only be used in some regions of the Eastern, American, and Ireland regions at the time of article creation, and it will be expected to expand future available regions.