EricKiennemann / Face_Rekognition_AWS

set up an API interface for AWS face rekognition service usage

Face_Rekognition_AWS

Set up an API interface for AWS face rekognition service usage

This workshop has been done thanks to two Alumni: Jean Milpied and Anthony Jourdan

Objective

You can follow this tutorial to set-up a simple API for face recognition (using your laptop webcam images) and the AWS 'rekognition service'. Nothing complicated. All files are shared in this github.

• on chrome, you may need to allow the site to get access to your webcam by going to the following option link:
  (chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure)
  

• On Firefox you need to enable in about:config both

  • media.devices.insecure.enabled
  • media.getusermedia.insecure.enabled

Pre-requisites

You will need to create a private S3 bucket and change the name into the back end script.

Front End

You will need to launch an EC2 instance with Ubuntu and install Apache server on it. The file needed for the front end are in the "Frontend_machine" folder.

Back end

You will need to launch an EC2 instance with Ubuntu and install :

• Conda
• Create a virtual env with python 3.6
• install the packages "Flask", "flask_cors" and "boto3".

The file required for the back end are in the backend_machine folder