Locating people in real-time video is now a reality, thanks to the launch of Amazon Rekognition Video, a new analysis service that allows the detection, tracking, recognition, extraction, and ...

Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) computer vision platform that was launched in 2016. It has been sold to and used by several United States government agencies as well ...

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The folks over at Perficient Digital released an image recognition study looking at the accuracy of the respective technologies. The study found that Google Vision beat out the competitors including ...

Matt Wood, general manager of artificial intelligence at AWS, demos Amazon’s new DeepLens camera at the company’s conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (GeekWire photo / Tom Krazit) Amazon’s newest ...

Sometimes recognition software is excellent at correctly categorizing certain types of images but totally fails with others. Some image recognition engines prefer cats over dogs, and some are far more ...

Amazon shareholders are calling on the company to stop selling its cloud-based facial recognition software to government agencies on the grounds it could put people’s civil liberties at risk. In a two ...

Much of the expense of developing AI models, and much of the recent backlash to said models, stems from the massive amount of power they tend to consume. If you’re willing to sacrifice some ability ...