Detecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Historically, humans have observed animal behaviors and applied them for different purposes. For example, behavioral observation is important in animal ecology, such as how often the behaviors are, when the behaviors occur, or whether there is individual difference or not. However, identifying and monitoring these behaviors and movements can be hard and can take a long time. To provide an automation for this workflow, a team from the agile members of pharmaceutical customer (Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd.) and AWS Solutions Architects created a solution with Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels. Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels makes it easy to label specific movements in images, and train and build a model that detects these movements.