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Best practices for sensors, input images, and videos

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Best practices for sensors, input images, and videos - Amazon Rekognition

This section contains best practice information for using Amazon Rekognition. These best practices will help you get optimal performance out of the operations you invoke. If you are struggling to get the expected results from an operation, ensure you are following the best practices documented here.

For information regarding the latency of image operations, see the following:

Facial comparision and faces search operations require you to follow specific best practices to find faces in an image. These requirements have also been documented in the following link:

The following sections cover how to set up your camera for each type of media Amazon Rekognition is capable of analyzing:

The Face Liveness operations also have their own best practices that should be followed to get the best performance from the Liveness check tool:

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