AWS Rekognition

The following quote is from Amazon Rekognition (https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/):

"Amazon Rekognition is a service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications. With Rekognition, you can detect objects, scenes, faces; recognize celebrities; and identify inappropriate content in images. You can also search and compare faces. Rekognition's API enables you to quickly add sophisticated deep learning-based visual search and image classification to your applications."

In this chapter, we are going to leverage the AWS Rekognition feature to help us set conditional surveillance based on face recognition, not face detection.

Let's say that you had set up a camera at your house entrance using Raspberry Pi, and programmed it to keep taking pictures of intruders and sending them to you. In this setup, you will be receiving images of everyone who comes to your door, for instance, your family, neighbors, and so on. But what if you are notified only if the intruder is...