Celebrity Recognizer

Inspiration

I honestly just felt like it would be cool, and I was especially inclined to make it once I found out AWS has a tool for it.

What it does

The user uploads an image from their local computer and runs the program using the "Analyze" button. The program will then tell them who the celebrity is if there is one and give the link to their IMDb profile.

How we built it

The project was pretty simple to build. I used streamlit's hosting ability in combination with the AWS Rekognition API to quickly implement a simple UI and functional CV model.

Challenges we ran into

Almost none, but there were some hiccups with translating the .jpg image file to something that the celebrity recognition model could read as an input due to my lack of experience with this.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm just proud that it works.

What we learned

I learned a good amount about the many different ways to generally processing an image to a byte array. In the end, I used one solution, but I know plenty of others could have worked, just as plenty of others also didn't work.

What's next for Celebrity Recognizer

This is a really rough draft of an app. Unfortunately, the idea isn't very novel, but I would at least like to add some more depth to the project than just – file in, celebrity name out.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• python
• streamlit