Facial Analysis

Rekognition can perform a more detailed analysis of faces as well. Given an image with a detectable face, it can tell whether the face is male or female, the age range of the face, whether or not the person is smiling and appears to be happy, and whether they are wearing glasses or not.

It can also detect more detailed information, such as whether the eyes and mouth are open or closed, and whether or not the person has a mustache or a beard.

To create a facial analysis of a sample image, you can do the following:

Note

Click on the Facial Analysis link in the left toolbar to navigate to the Facial Analysis page.

1. We will use the upload capability to upload images and analyze the images:

   Figure 6.20: The image upload button

2. The first image to be analyzed can be found at https://packt.live/3f5ipH0.

   You can either save the image onto your disk or download this book's GitHub repository, as we covered in Chapter 1, An Introduction to AWS.

3. Click...