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AI image recognition via AWS Rekognition
Why Choose This Project?
Image recognition is increasingly important for applications like security, e-commerce, social media, healthcare, and surveillance. AWS Rekognition provides a fully managed AI service to detect objects, faces, text, and inappropriate content in images and videos.
This project allows students to learn cloud-based AI/ML services, image analysis, and automation without building complex ML models from scratch.
What You Get
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Upload images and analyze them for objects, faces, and text
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Detect inappropriate or unsafe content
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Face comparison and recognition
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Facial attribute detection (age range, emotions, gender, etc.)
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Search for faces in a pre-built collection
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Integration with notifications, dashboards, or apps
Key Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Object & Scene Detection | Detect common objects, scenes, and activities in images |
| Facial Analysis | Detect faces and analyze attributes like emotion, age, and gender |
| Face Comparison | Compare two faces to determine similarity |
| Face Search | Search for faces in a collection of images |
| Unsafe Content Detection | Identify adult or violent content automatically |
| Text in Image Detection | Detect and extract text from images |
| Integration Ready | Easily integrate with apps, dashboards, or serverless workflows |
| Scalable & Serverless | Fully managed cloud service that scales with demand |
Technology Stack
| Layer | Tools/Technologies |
|---|---|
| Frontend | HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap 5, JavaScript |
| Backend | Node.js (Express) or Python (Flask/Django) |
| AI Service | AWS Rekognition |
| Storage | Amazon S3 for storing images |
| Authentication | AWS Cognito or JWT |
| Monitoring | CloudWatch for API usage metrics |
AWS Services Used
| AWS Service | Purpose |
|---|---|
| AWS Rekognition | Image and face recognition, text detection, unsafe content detection |
| Amazon S3 | Store uploaded images and image collections |
| AWS Lambda | Optional serverless processing of images |
| AWS Cognito | User authentication and authorization |
| CloudWatch | Monitor API calls and usage |
| SNS / SQS | Optional notifications for analysis results |
Working Flow
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Image Upload
Users upload images to an S3 bucket via the frontend. -
Trigger Rekognition
Lambda or backend service sends the image to AWS Rekognition for analysis. -
Analysis & Detection
Rekognition identifies objects, faces, text, and content type. -
Results Handling
Results are returned to the frontend for display, or stored in a database for further processing. -
Optional Alerts
Trigger notifications if unsafe content or specific objects/faces are detected.