Celebrity Recognition

Rekognition provides us with the ability to recognize and label celebrities and other famous people in images. This includes well-known individuals from a variety of fields, such as sports, business, politics, media, and entertainment.

It is important to remember that Rekognition can only recognize faces that it has been trained on, and so does not cover a full, exhaustive list of celebrities. However, since Amazon continues to train the system, it is constantly adding new faces to
the service.

Note

Click the Celebrity recognition link in the left toolbar to navigate to the Celebrity recognition page.

To create a celebrity recognition of a sample image, you can do the following:

1. Click the Upload button. We will use a picture whose file can be found at https://packt.live/38CmbVM. You can either save the image onto your disk or download this book's GitHub repository, as described in Chapter 1, An Introduction to AWS.
2. It will show the...