Amazon Rekognition Development: A Complete Guide (Udemy.com)
Learn how to add powerful visual search & image recognition capability to your applications using AWS Amazon Rekognition
Created by: Dhiman Halder
Last updated June 2020
What you will learn
- Master the 6 core capabilities offered by Amazon Rekognition
- Develop 6 complete end-to-end working solutions each featuring a different capability of Amazon Rekognition
- Learn how to introduce Image Recognition capabilities within your own applications
- Learn how to make Amazon Rekognition work in tandem with host of other AWS services like S3, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, SNS, Cognito, CloudWatch and IAM
How it compares
Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 36% of them
- Reviews213#188 of 236 by number of reviews
- Length2.3 hoursshorter than 91% of them
- Last updatedJune 2020earlier than 81% of them
Course Description
Amazon Rekognition is a sophisticated deep learning based service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to add powerful visual search and discovery to your own applications. With Rekognition using simple APIs, you can quickly detect objects, scenes, faces, celebrities and inappropriate content within images. You can also search, analyze, organize and compare faces.
"I love how you structured the course (demo and code) and most importantly you showed how to use the technology. Most of the course that I've seen and taken lack the latter part." - Sovanna Chuon, Student
"It is exactly what I was looking for: a quick and clear introduction to AWS Rekognition." - Miguel Cabral, Student
"Buen curso, ritmo adecuado y entendible, tal vez falta entrar más en detalle en el código pero en general muy recomendable." - Eduardo Vargas Aguirre, Student
Are you a Developer looking to incorporate visual search and Image recognition capabilities to your own Applications using the recently launched Amazon Rekognition service from AWS? Are you an Architect or Tech Lead willing to explore reference Architectures and implementations on how Amazon Rekognition fits in with other AWS service offerings to solve Real-world problems? Either way, you are in the right place.
This course emphasize on learning by doing. You will be developing 6 complete end-to-end solutions with different capabilities of Amazon Rekognition. You will be developing the following projects:
Deliver Dynamic Targeted Advertisement Content
Intelligent Family Photo Search App
Face Based Authentication and Verification System
Travel Photo Smart Search App
Enhance the Travel Photo Smart Search App with Image Moderation
Celebrity Recognizer
In the process, you will also interact with and learn to use the following AWS services
S3
Lambda Function
API Gateway
DynamoDB
ElasticSearch
Cognito
SNS
CloudWatch
Identity and Access Management
***Important Update - ImageMagick Fix***
September 15, 2019
ImageMagick is no longer bundled with the Node.js 10.x runtime in Lambda due to security reasons. I have included a lecture with all the instructions to install and use a lambda layer to address this issue.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
213 Reviews
Dhiman Halder
I am a Solutions Architect with 16 years of IT experience - I have worked with the AWS platform for more than 10 years. I hold 5 AWS certifications including AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Professional, and all the 3 AWS associate certifications. I am also Kubernetes certified and hold CKA, CKAD and CKS. I have a tonne of experience Architecting & Developing scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems.
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Reviews
By Anonymized User on 5/19/2021
Great course. Practical, precise. No theory where student is assumed to know the basics of AWS. This makes it more appealing. Many data security considerations not shows. Public S3 buckets, photos, likely unnecessary AWS charges etc. All APIs are public, open to the world to use (and likely exploit)
By Jose D Grimaldo Garcia on 6/4/2020
El curso esta muy completo, el instructor explica de forma muy clara los principales componentes de los servicios que ofrece AWS, sin embargo, muchos de los recurso usados durante el curso ya se encuentran actualizados y esto impacta el funcionamiento de algunas actividades
By Michael Singaram Murugan on 3/21/2020
The entire course is 3 years old. Lot of things has been changed in the past years in aws... Dhiman's course is outdated.. n at some parts dhiman didn't update proper code for the students. And it is definitely not for beginners. You need some sort of development knowledge. I hope he answer the questions asked by his confused lost students in the comment section n update the course as lot of things has been changed in AWS.
By Larry Chuon on 11/19/2018
I love how you structured the course (demo and code) and most importantly you showed how to use the technology. Most of the course that I've seen and taken lack the latter part.
By Miguel Cabral on 7/5/2018
It is exactly what I was looking for: a quick and clear introduction to AWS Rekognition. Even though AWS has changed a little bit since the video was recorded, it is still very easy to follow and all the code works as expected!
By Priyank Bolia on 5/21/2018
This is not in depth explanation of Amazon Rekognition, but just some simple project made using Amazon Rekognition. The projects are also not well designed and mostly repetitive tasks, and security aspect is left for user to figure out. Most of the projects code is easily available online and this course is just a basic walkthrough of the code with just simple API usage shown. At least I can't understand what are collection, and where they are stored, and if stored by Amazon what is the cost and size limitations. Topics like real-time face recognition, Text in Image recognition were left. No comparison of Rekognition with Google, no discussion on features and pricing. No topics on integrating with other AWS services like Kinesis, etc. The 2 star is for at least dealing with Elastic search, otherwise all the projects are too simple and Amazon documentation has better knowledge and code sample for most of the things.
By Anil Yedla on 8/13/2017
Really informative course. The instructor communicated clearly with simple explanation and illustrations. Every concept was explained with clear examples which covered every basic information. Its easy to practice and add our own thoughts. Overall the course is very useful and helpful.
By Sergii Zabigailo on 8/10/2017
I really enjoy the course. One of the best presentors I've met on Udemy. I like the speed, explanations details level and examples provided. Very helpful. Thank you so much and looking forward for more courses from you!
By Abhijit Sinha on 7/22/2017
Excellent course! It is very informative. It is structured so well that it provides essential knowledge needed to get started and goes in depth as the course progresses.
By Arjun Chakraborty on 7/22/2017
This course is comprehensive..instructor assumes little prior knowledge and takes you through the concepts to a advanced level of proficiency. He doesnt miss a step from the environment setup to the sample application scenarios. Definetly worth the money if building a new skillset is important to you!
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Overall Score : 88 / 100



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