Searching faces in a collection in streaming video
Note
Amazon Rekognition Streaming Video Analysis will no longer be open to new customers starting April 30, 2026. If you would like to use Streaming Video Analysis, sign up prior to that date. Existing customers for accounts that have used this feature within the last 12 months can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see Rekognition Streaming Video Analysis availability change.
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:
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A Kinesis video stream for sending streaming video to Amazon Rekognition Video. For more information, see the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Developer Guide.
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An Amazon Rekognition Video stream processor to manage the analysis of the streaming video. For more information, see Overview of Amazon Rekognition Video stream processor operations.
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A Kinesis data stream consumer to read the analysis results that Amazon Rekognition Video sends to the Kinesis data stream. For more information, see Kinesis Data Streams Consumers.
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.
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