Find Distinct People in a Video with Amazon Rekognition Amazon Web Services

Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to detect, search for, and compare faces in images to find matches. In this post, we show how to use Amazon Rekognition to find distinct people in a video and identify the frames that they appear in. You could use face detection in videos, for example, to identify actors in a movie, find relatives and friends in a personal video library, or track people in video surveillance. First, we explain how the serverless solution finds distinct people in a video. Then, we explain how to implement the solution in your AWS account with AWS CloudFormation and to test it with a sample video.