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Searching faces in a collection in streaming video - Amazon Rekognition

Searching faces in a collection in streaming video

Note

Streaming Video and Bulk Image Analysis is no longer available to new customers. For more information, see Amazon Rekognition feature availability changes.

This change does not impact the availability of other Amazon Rekognition features.

You can use Amazon Rekognition Video to detect and recognize faces from a collection in streaming video. With Amazon Rekognition Video you can create a stream processor (CreateStreamProcessor) to start and manage the analysis of streaming video.

To detect a known face in a video stream (face search), Amazon Rekognition Video uses Amazon Kinesis Video Streams to receive and process a video stream. The analysis results are output from Amazon Rekognition Video to a Kinesis data stream and then read by your client application.

To use Amazon Rekognition Video with streaming video, your application needs to implement the following:

This section contains information about writing an application that creates the Kinesis video stream and other necessary resources, streams video into Amazon Rekognition Video, and receives the analysis results.