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Amazon Rekognition

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What is Amazon Rekognition?

Amazon offers Rekognition, an image and video visual analytics tool that is trained on locating and identifying labeled or tag-related objects, events, people, and also inappropriate content in images and video so that images and video can more safely and reliably be integrated and positioned in web applications or presentations after it conducts its analysis.

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Great API for image and video processing

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Purva BhattView profile
Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at RapidOps, Inc. (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to use framework, just make API calls.
  • The accuracy is very good that we can rely on it.
  • It provides all functionalities for image and videos.

Cons

  • The cost is bit more for small scale companies.
  • For text processing, OCR is not available in amazon rekognition.
  • Only facial search is available in image search.

Return on Investment

  • The best thing it made our work fast.
  • It reduces the chance of failure of a project which is based on image or video processing.
  • We can assign anyone in our team to work on this as it very easy to use.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Kairos

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Image and video analysis through API

Incentivized
Sam Lance
ML engineer in Information Technology at Cloudworks (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Image tagging is very good.
  • Object detection is precise.
  • Video tagging has become very easy using Rekognition.

Cons

  • Uses API calls which delays operation sometimes.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use.
  • Costs get effected due to its subscription pricing.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)

Other Software Used

Slack, Zoom