Amazon Rekognition Face Search Sample

This sample tries the following:

1. Indexing faces in an Amazon Rekognition face collection
2. Searching for faces detected in an image

Usage

Indexing faces

python index_faces.py \
  --collection-id test-collection \
  "images/portraits/Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg" \
  "images/portraits/Joe_Biden_presidential_portrait.jpg"

Searching for faces

You can check result images in images/results/ directory.

python search_faces.py \
  --collection-id test-collection \
  "images/Official_portrait_of_President_Obama_and_Vice_President_Biden_2012.jpg" \
  "images/P20211101AS-0357_(51846489866).jpg"

Cleaning up the face collection

aws rekognition delete-collection --collection-id test-collection

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Sample images

All sample images in this repository are under public domain.

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_Biden_presidential_portrait.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_President_Obama_and_Vice_President_Biden_2012.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P20211101AS-0357_(51846489866).jpg

Sample result images are stored in images/results directory.

One of those is here. You can find an image to be used for searching on upper-left.