Amazon Rekognition Face Search API

Search for matching faces within collections.

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POST /#SearchFacesByImage Amazon Rekognition Search Faces by Image #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-rekognition-face-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon Rekognition Celebrity Recognition Face Search API
  description: Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based computer vision service providing image and video analysis including label detection, facial analysis, face comparison, celebrity recognition, text detection, content moderation, custom labels, face liveness detection, and streaming video analysis.
  version: '2016-06-27'
  contact:
    name: AWS Support
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  x-generated-from: documentation
servers:
- url: https://rekognition.amazonaws.com
  description: Amazon Rekognition global endpoint
tags:
- name: Face Search
  description: Search for matching faces within collections.
paths:
  /#SearchFacesByImage:
    post:
      operationId: searchFacesByImage
      summary: Amazon Rekognition Search Faces by Image
      description: For a given input image, searches the specified collection for matching faces.
      tags:
      - Face Search
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-amz-json-1.1:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchFacesByImageRequest'
            examples:
              searchFacesByImageRequestExample:
                summary: Default searchFacesByImage request
                x-microcks-default: true
                value:
                  CollectionId: my-face-collection
                  Image:
                    S3Object:
                      Bucket: my-bucket
                      Name: query.jpg
                  MaxFaces: 5
                  FaceMatchThreshold: 80.0
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Face search completed successfully.
          content:
            application/x-amz-json-1.1:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchFacesByImageResponse'
              examples:
                searchFacesByImage200Example:
                  summary: Default searchFacesByImage 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    FaceMatches: []
                    FaceModelVersion: '6.0'
        '400':
          description: Invalid request.
          content:
            application/x-amz-json-1.1:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
      security:
      - aws_signature: []
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    S3Object:
      type: object
      description: Provides the S3 bucket name and object name.
      properties:
        Bucket:
          type: string
          description: Name of the S3 bucket.
          example: my-images-bucket
        Name:
          type: string
          description: S3 object key name.
          example: images/photo.jpg
        Version:
          type: string
          description: S3 object version ID if versioning is enabled.
          example: v1
    BoundingBox:
      type: object
      description: Identifies the bounding box around the label, face, text or object.
      properties:
        Width:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Width of the bounding box as a ratio of the overall image width.
          example: 0.35
        Height:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Height of the bounding box as a ratio of the overall image height.
          example: 0.45
        Left:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Left coordinate of the bounding box as a ratio of overall image width.
          example: 0.1
        Top:
          type: number
          format: float
          description: Top coordinate of the bounding box as a ratio of overall image height.
          example: 0.05
    Image:
      type: object
      description: Provides the input image either as bytes or an S3 object.
      properties:
        Bytes:
          type: string
          format: byte
          description: Blob of image bytes up to 5 MBs.
        S3Object:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/S3Object'
    SearchFacesByImageRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - CollectionId
      - Image
      properties:
        CollectionId:
          type: string
          example: my-face-collection
        Image:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Image'
        MaxFaces:
          type: integer
          example: 5
        FaceMatchThreshold:
          type: number
          format: float
          example: 80.0
        QualityFilter:
          type: string
          enum:
          - NONE
          - AUTO
          - LOW
          - MEDIUM
          - HIGH
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard error response from the Amazon Rekognition API.
      properties:
        __type:
          type: string
          description: The type of exception.
          example: InvalidParameterException
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable description of the error.
          example: Request has invalid parameters.
    SearchFacesByImageResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        SearchedFaceBoundingBox:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/BoundingBox'
        SearchedFaceConfidence:
          type: number
          format: float
        FaceMatches:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        FaceModelVersion:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    aws_signature:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: AWS Signature Version 4. Include the Authorization header with AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 signature.