Amazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in images

With Amazon Rekognition PPE detection, customers can analyze images from their on-premises cameras across multiple locations to automatically detect if persons in the images are wearing the required PPE. When customers analyze an image using Amazon Rekognition PPE detection, for each person detected in the image, they receive confidence scores with bounding boxes for each item of protective equipment detected (face cover, hand covers, and head cover) and Boolean responses (true or false) with confidence scores for whether each detected item of protective equipment covers the corresponding body part (nose, hands, and head). They can also supply a list of required protective equipment (such as face cover or face cover and head cover) and a minimum confidence threshold (such as 80%) to receive a consolidated per-image summary of Persons with Required PPE, Persons without Required PPE, and Persons Indeterminate. Using these PPE detection results, customers can trigger timely alarms or notifications that remind people to wear PPE before or during their presence in a hazardous area in order to help improve or maintain everyone's safety. They can also aggregate the PPE detection results and analyze them by time and place to identify how safety warnings or training practices can be improved and generate reports for use during regulatory audits.