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Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning

182 points by dwynings 10y ago

rinchik1 10y ago
"appears to be female - 100%" "does not have a beard - 99.2%" :D
ranman 10y ago
If you guys want to see an example of this in action I made a stupid little demo. You can tweet @AWSCloudNinja a selfie and it will replace your face with a ninja mask. I'm waiting to post the code until the new boto models are out but it's all in python and lambda functions. (I work for AWS)
- daveguy 10y ago
  Can it put fruit hats on kitties?
  - monksy 10y ago
    No but I code a thing that would put hats on people. https://mrmonksy.com/p/ProjectFunnyHats#.WD9gybIrLRY https://mrmonksy.com/p/ProjectFunnyHats#.WD9gybIrLRY (It was a project for a class)
simonebrunozzi 10y ago
Worst AWS product name after Elastic BeanStalk.
- mattkrea 10y ago
  It's just named after the product they bought: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/amazon-said-to-acquire-ai-based-image-analysis-startup-orbeus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/amazon-sa... The ReKognition API
  - simonebrunozzi 10y ago
    And so? They didn't name RedShift (great name!) after the company they acquired.
    - mattkrea 10y ago
      I don't care either way--I was just pointing out that they didn't choose the name
mrfusion 10y ago
Are there other similar services out there or is this completely new? It looks really awesome. I know this is silly to ask of a cloud company but some kind of offline mode would be really useful for robotics and for the security example. Maybe it could be limited like you request n specific things you want to recognize and it stores the relevant data locally.
- sanxiyn 10y ago
  This seems comparable to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
- wmblaettler 10y ago
  Google's Vision API: https://cloud.google.com/vision/ https://cloud.google.com/vision/
- zitterbewegung 10y ago
  Might as well use a pretrained Imagenet or Inception for an offline mode. Of course it would be harder to use.
- jasonnovack 10y ago
  Clarifai: https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/quick-start/ https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/quick-start/
- bfolkens 10y ago
  Check out Torch7 (http://torch.ch http://torch.ch) or Google's new TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org https://www.tensorflow.org) - both of them are really easy to use (especially TensorFlow) and will allow you to build models with a bit of programming knowledge that run offline quite easily.
diyseguy 10y ago
This comes rather fast on the heels of Yahoo releasing their NSFW source code
- novacollie 10y ago
  AWS Rekognition's core technology is coming from Rekognition.com, and the company Orbeus behind it was acquired by Amazon in 2015. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=orbeus+venture+beat https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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daviding 10y ago
https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition gives me a "Please (re)authenticate or return to https://console.aws.amazon.com" https://console.aws.amazon.com" error. Anyone else getting this or is it not open yet?
- asteadman 10y ago
  Yeah. Same. Similar thing happened to me when lambda came out. I'm guessing they are still rolling it out to everyone.
chrisan 10y ago
Is there an AWS product that is similar to catchoom.com or slyce.it Something that recognizes specific items rather than generic terms?
- Dunedan 10y ago
  The closest service provided by Amazon to achieve that I'm aware of is Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). It's of course a completely different approach, but depending on the problem it might be a viable solution as well.
netinstructions 10y ago
Pricing (for first million images / month) Google Cloud Vision $1.50 per 1,000 images[1] Amazon Rekognition $1.00 per 1,000 images[2] Interesting that when Google Cloud Vision first came out it was $5 per 1,000 images (for label detection), but they reduced it on Nov 15, 2016. [3] [1] https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing [2] https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/ [3] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Cloud-Machine-Learning-family-grows-with-new-API-editions-and-pricing.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Cloud-Machine-L...
- Qworg 10y ago
  Microsoft's offering is $1.50/1000 calls as well. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing
Veratyr 10y ago
There are a lot of services like this (Google Cloud Vision, IBM Watson, CloudSight, Clarifai, Imagga) but I'm yet to see one that lets me provide my own dataset. That's what I'm most interested in. So far the only solution I know of is to take Google's Inception net and train/host it myself somewhere.
- nl 10y ago
  I know Watson at least lets you do this: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/visual-recognition/classifiers-tutorials.shtml https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/visual-recogni...
  - Veratyr 10y ago
    It does but it's extremely cumbersome if you have densely tagged images, as you need to send each image once per tag. Plus I believe there's a limit to the size of a ZIP.
    - matt_ny 10y ago
      Not sure what you mean here - With Watson Visual Recognition, you can train a set of custom classifiers from your example images. Then in a single API call, you can upload a batch or single image and get a score for each image for each class in all your classifiers. There are limits to the size of the ZIP files you can upload, that's true.
      - matt_ny 10y ago
        Maybe you were referring to the _demo_ of custom training, here: https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/train https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/train ? The demo only classifies using one classifier at a time, but the API can do multiple at once.
- anko 10y ago
  https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/guide/train#add-images-with-concepts https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/guide/train#add-image... Try this - Clarifai is run my Matthew Zeiler, who's imagenet results really kickstarted the whole deep learning craze.
tehwebguy 10y ago
Awesome, I never knew what happened to these guys! We used to use it to count faces and get some basic demo data from the photos our animated GIF photo booth takes. One day it shut down but we didn't know why until now!
- coleca 10y ago
  Feel free to give www.kairos.com a try. We have a world class facial detection and recognition service, as well as emotion analysis on still images and video. (Disclosure CTO of Kairos.com)
bikamonki 10y ago
Will this help me tag and classify my thousands of personal photos? Once it recognizes a face will it tag it and identify it the next time I call it with the same person on another picture?
- ClassyJacket 10y ago
  Google Photos does that.
- davidbarker 10y ago
  Yes. > You can also use Rekognition to compare faces and to see if a given image contains any one of a number of faces that you have asked it to recognize.
asteadman 10y ago
Anybody know whether it is kosher to use Rekognition (or comparable Google/Azure/Clarify solutions) as a source of "supervised" data to bootstrap your own in-house ML models? I'm pretty sure the TOS would frown upon that, but it would beat manually tagging your own datasets, plus its hard/impossible for them to enforce. EDIT: in retrospect, the pricing means its probably not economically viable.
randomflavor 10y ago
Does anyone know (I don't see in docs, but maybe?) if this has the power to be able to make an image hash for comparison to other images? To be able to do tineye type stuff?
turingbook 10y ago
It is based on Orbeus's technology which was acquired by Amazon. Orbeus was found by two Chinese guys in Boston University.

182 points by dwynings 10y ago

"appears to be female - 100%" "does not have a beard - 99.2%" :D

If you guys want to see an example of this in action I made a stupid little demo. You can tweet @AWSCloudNinja a selfie and it will replace your face with a ninja mask. I'm waiting to post the code until the new boto models are out but it's all in python and lambda functions. (I work for AWS)

daveguy 10y ago
Can it put fruit hats on kitties?
- monksy 10y ago
  No but I code a thing that would put hats on people. https://mrmonksy.com/p/ProjectFunnyHats#.WD9gybIrLRY https://mrmonksy.com/p/ProjectFunnyHats#.WD9gybIrLRY (It was a project for a class)

simonebrunozzi 10y ago

Worst AWS product name after Elastic BeanStalk.

mattkrea 10y ago
It's just named after the product they bought: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/amazon-said-to-acquire-ai-based-image-analysis-startup-orbeus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/amazon-sa... The ReKognition API
- simonebrunozzi 10y ago
  And so? They didn't name RedShift (great name!) after the company they acquired.
  - mattkrea 10y ago
    I don't care either way--I was just pointing out that they didn't choose the name

mrfusion 10y ago

Are there other similar services out there or is this completely new? It looks really awesome. I know this is silly to ask of a cloud company but some kind of offline mode would be really useful for robotics and for the security example. Maybe it could be limited like you request n specific things you want to recognize and it stores the relevant data locally.

sanxiyn 10y ago
This seems comparable to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
wmblaettler 10y ago
Google's Vision API: https://cloud.google.com/vision/ https://cloud.google.com/vision/
zitterbewegung 10y ago
Might as well use a pretrained Imagenet or Inception for an offline mode. Of course it would be harder to use.
jasonnovack 10y ago
Clarifai: https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/quick-start/ https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/quick-start/
bfolkens 10y ago
Check out Torch7 (http://torch.ch http://torch.ch) or Google's new TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org https://www.tensorflow.org) - both of them are really easy to use (especially TensorFlow) and will allow you to build models with a bit of programming knowledge that run offline quite easily.

diyseguy 10y ago

This comes rather fast on the heels of Yahoo releasing their NSFW source code

novacollie 10y ago
AWS Rekognition's core technology is coming from Rekognition.com, and the company Orbeus behind it was acquired by Amazon in 2015. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=orbeus+venture+beat https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

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daviding 10y ago

https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition gives me a "Please (re)authenticate or return to https://console.aws.amazon.com" https://console.aws.amazon.com" error. Anyone else getting this or is it not open yet?

asteadman 10y ago
Yeah. Same. Similar thing happened to me when lambda came out. I'm guessing they are still rolling it out to everyone.

chrisan 10y ago

Is there an AWS product that is similar to catchoom.com or slyce.it Something that recognizes specific items rather than generic terms?

Dunedan 10y ago
The closest service provided by Amazon to achieve that I'm aware of is Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). It's of course a completely different approach, but depending on the problem it might be a viable solution as well.

netinstructions 10y ago

Pricing (for first million images / month) Google Cloud Vision $1.50 per 1,000 images[1] Amazon Rekognition $1.00 per 1,000 images[2] Interesting that when Google Cloud Vision first came out it was $5 per 1,000 images (for label detection), but they reduced it on Nov 15, 2016. [3] [1] https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing [2] https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/ [3] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Cloud-Machine-Learning-family-grows-with-new-API-editions-and-pricing.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Cloud-Machine-L...

Qworg 10y ago
Microsoft's offering is $1.50/1000 calls as well. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing

Veratyr 10y ago

There are a lot of services like this (Google Cloud Vision, IBM Watson, CloudSight, Clarifai, Imagga) but I'm yet to see one that lets me provide my own dataset. That's what I'm most interested in. So far the only solution I know of is to take Google's Inception net and train/host it myself somewhere.

nl 10y ago
I know Watson at least lets you do this: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/visual-recognition/classifiers-tutorials.shtml https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/visual-recogni...
- Veratyr 10y ago
  It does but it's extremely cumbersome if you have densely tagged images, as you need to send each image once per tag. Plus I believe there's a limit to the size of a ZIP.
  - matt_ny 10y ago
    Not sure what you mean here - With Watson Visual Recognition, you can train a set of custom classifiers from your example images. Then in a single API call, you can upload a batch or single image and get a score for each image for each class in all your classifiers. There are limits to the size of the ZIP files you can upload, that's true.
    - matt_ny 10y ago
      Maybe you were referring to the _demo_ of custom training, here: https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/train https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/train ? The demo only classifies using one classifier at a time, but the API can do multiple at once.
anko 10y ago
https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/guide/train#add-images-with-concepts https://developer-preview.clarifai.com/guide/train#add-image... Try this - Clarifai is run my Matthew Zeiler, who's imagenet results really kickstarted the whole deep learning craze.

tehwebguy 10y ago

Awesome, I never knew what happened to these guys! We used to use it to count faces and get some basic demo data from the photos our animated GIF photo booth takes. One day it shut down but we didn't know why until now!

coleca 10y ago
Feel free to give www.kairos.com a try. We have a world class facial detection and recognition service, as well as emotion analysis on still images and video. (Disclosure CTO of Kairos.com)

bikamonki 10y ago

Will this help me tag and classify my thousands of personal photos? Once it recognizes a face will it tag it and identify it the next time I call it with the same person on another picture?

ClassyJacket 10y ago
Google Photos does that.
davidbarker 10y ago
Yes. > You can also use Rekognition to compare faces and to see if a given image contains any one of a number of faces that you have asked it to recognize.

asteadman 10y ago

Anybody know whether it is kosher to use Rekognition (or comparable Google/Azure/Clarify solutions) as a source of "supervised" data to bootstrap your own in-house ML models? I'm pretty sure the TOS would frown upon that, but it would beat manually tagging your own datasets, plus its hard/impossible for them to enforce. EDIT: in retrospect, the pricing means its probably not economically viable.

randomflavor 10y ago

Does anyone know (I don't see in docs, but maybe?) if this has the power to be able to make an image hash for comparison to other images? To be able to do tineye type stuff?

turingbook 10y ago

It is based on Orbeus's technology which was acquired by Amazon. Orbeus was found by two Chinese guys in Boston University.