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Computer Vision on AWS

By : Lauren Mullennex, Nate Bachmeier, Jay Rao
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Computer Vision on AWS

By: Lauren Mullennex, Nate Bachmeier, Jay Rao

Overview of this book

Computer vision (CV) is a field of artificial intelligence that helps transform visual data into actionable insights to solve a wide range of business challenges. This book provides prescriptive guidance to anyone looking to learn how to approach CV problems for quickly building and deploying production-ready models. You’ll begin by exploring the applications of CV and the features of Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Lookout for Vision. The book will then walk you through real-world use cases such as identity verification, real-time video analysis, content moderation, and detecting manufacturing defects that’ll enable you to understand how to implement AWS AI/ML services. As you make progress, you'll also use Amazon SageMaker for data annotation, training, and deploying CV models. In the concluding chapters, you'll work with practical code examples, and discover best practices and design principles for scaling, reducing cost, improving the security posture, and mitigating bias of CV workloads. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to accelerate your business outcomes by building and implementing CV into your production environments with the help of AWS AI/ML services.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to CV on AWS and Amazon Rekognition
5
Part 2: Applying CV to Real-World Use Cases
9
Part 3: CV at the edge
12
Part 4: Building CV Solutions with Amazon SageMaker
15
Part 5: Best Practices for Production-Ready CV Workloads

The Amazon Rekognition console

The AWS management console gives you secure access to your AWS resources. You can explore its functionality using any modern web browser, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Mozilla Firefox. Most customers access the management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/. Confirm the endpoint with your IT support department if you use an employer’s AWS account.

Within the web application is the Amazon Rekognition service console. It contains a series of image Demos and Video Demos pages. These single-page applications (SPAs) illustrate various core scenarios of the Amazon Rekognition service. You can also find links to product documentation, custom label design wizards, and troubleshooting metrics.

First, let’s examine using the Amazon Rekognition console. To access it, take the following steps:

  1. Navigate to https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/.
  2. Choose Ohio (us-east-2), or another supported Region, using the...