In this chapter, you learned how to use the various features of the Amazon Rekognition service and applied this to images. First, you used the service to recognize objects and scenes in images. Next, you moderated images that might have objectionable content by using Rekognition to recognize the objectionable content in the images.

You were able to analyze faces with Rekognition and were also able to identify their gender, age range, whether they were smiling, and whether they were wearing glasses.

You also recognized celebrities and famous people with the service, and compared faces in different images to see whether they were the same. Finally, you were able to extract text that was displayed in images.

These types of features would have seemed unbelievable just a few years ago. The nature of machine learning and artificial intelligence is that immense strides have been made recently, today, and into the foreseeable future in terms of what computers are going to be able to do — and...