Introduction

In the preceding chapters, you have done lots of interesting exercises and activities with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) services. You combined the serverless computing paradigm and conversational AI to construct chatbots, as well as a fully functional contact center that enables anyone to converse with the chatbots through a voice interface that's available by dialing a local phone number. You also learned about text analysis and topic modeling, all using the AWS services.

In this chapter, you will use the Amazon Rekognition service to perform various image processing tasks. First, you will identify objects and scenes within images. Then, you will test whether images should be flagged as needing content moderation. Next, you will analyze faces using Rekognition. You will also recognize celebrities and well-known people in images. You will compare faces that appear in different images and settings (for example...