Build Natural Flower Classifier using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Building your own computer vision model from scratch can be fun and fulfilling. You get to decide your preferred choice of machine learning framework and platform for training and deployment, design your data pipeline and neural network architecture, write custom training and inference scripts, and fine-tune your model algorithm's hyperparameters to get the optimal model performance. On the other hand, this can also be a daunting task for someone who has no or little computer vision and machine learning expertise. This post shows a step-by-step guide on how to build a natural flower classifier using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels with AWS best practices. Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is a feature of Amazon Rekognition, one of the AWS AI services for automated image and video analysis with machine learning. It provides Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) capability for custom computer vision end-to-end machine learning workflows.