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Disassociating faces from a user

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Disassociating faces from a user - Amazon Rekognition

You can use the DisassociateFaces operation to remove the association between a user ID and a face ID.

To disassociate faces (SDK)
  1. If you haven't already:

    1. Create or update a user with AmazonRekognitionFullAccess permissions. For more information, see Step 1: Set up an AWS account and create a User.

    2. Install and configure the AWS CLI and the AWS SDKs. For more information, see Step 2: Set up the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs.

  2. Use the following examples to call the DisassociateFaces operation.

    Java

    This Java example removes the association between a FaceID and a UserID with the DisassociateFaces operation.

    import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.AmazonRekognition; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.AmazonRekognitionClientBuilder; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.model.DisassociateFacesRequest; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.model.DisassociateFacesResult; public class DisassociateFaces { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { AmazonRekognition rekognitionClient = AmazonRekognitionClientBuilder.defaultClient(); /* Replace the below configurations to allow you successfully run the example @collectionId: The collection where user and faces are stored @userId: The user which faces will get disassociated from @faceIds: The list of face IDs that will get disassociated from the given user */ String collectionId = "MyCollection"; String userId = "demoUser"; String faceId1 = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"; String faceId2 = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"; List<String> faceIds = Arrays.asList(faceid1,faceid2); System.out.println("Disassociating faces from existing user: " + userId); DisassociateFacesRequest request = new DisassociateFacesRequest() .withCollectionId(collectionId) .withUserId(userId) .withFaceIds(faceIds) DisassociateFacesResult result = rekognitionClient.disassociateFaces(request); System.out.println("Successful face disassociations: " + result.getDisassociatedFaces().size()); System.out.println("Unsuccessful face disassociations: " + result.getUnsuccessfulFaceDisassociations().size()); } }
    AWS CLI

    This AWS CLI command removes the association between a FaceID and a UserID with the DisassociateFaces operation.

    aws rekognition disassociate-faces --face-ids list-of-face-ids --user-id user-id --collection-id collection-name --region region-name
    Python

    The following example removes the association between a FaceID and a UserID with the DisassociateFaces operation.

    from botocore.exceptions import ClientError import boto3 import logging logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) session = boto3.Session(profile_name='profile-name') client = session.client('rekognition') def disassociate_faces(collection_id, user_id, face_ids): """ Disassociate stored faces within collection to the given user :param collection_id: The ID of the collection where user and faces are stored. :param user_id: The ID of the user that we want to disassociate faces from :param face_ids: The list of face IDs to be disassociated from the given user :return: response of AssociateFaces API """ logger.info(f'Disssociating faces from user: {user_id}, {face_ids}') try: response = client.disassociate_faces( CollectionId=collection_id, UserId=user_id, FaceIds=face_ids ) print(f'- disassociated {len(response["DisassociatedFaces"])} faces') except ClientError: logger.exception("Failed to disassociate faces from the given user") raise else: print(response) return response def main(): face_ids = ["faceId1", "faceId2"] collection_id = "collection-id" user_id = "user-id" disassociate_faces(collection_id, user_id, face_ids) if __name__ == "__main__": main()

    This Java example removes the association between a FaceID and a UserID with the DisassociateFaces operation.

    import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.AmazonRekognition; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.AmazonRekognitionClientBuilder; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.model.DisassociateFacesRequest; import com.amazonaws.services.rekognition.model.DisassociateFacesResult; public class DisassociateFaces { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { AmazonRekognition rekognitionClient = AmazonRekognitionClientBuilder.defaultClient(); /* Replace the below configurations to allow you successfully run the example @collectionId: The collection where user and faces are stored @userId: The user which faces will get disassociated from @faceIds: The list of face IDs that will get disassociated from the given user */ String collectionId = "MyCollection"; String userId = "demoUser"; String faceId1 = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"; String faceId2 = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"; List<String> faceIds = Arrays.asList(faceid1,faceid2); System.out.println("Disassociating faces from existing user: " + userId); DisassociateFacesRequest request = new DisassociateFacesRequest() .withCollectionId(collectionId) .withUserId(userId) .withFaceIds(faceIds) DisassociateFacesResult result = rekognitionClient.disassociateFaces(request); System.out.println("Successful face disassociations: " + result.getDisassociatedFaces().size()); System.out.println("Unsuccessful face disassociations: " + result.getUnsuccessfulFaceDisassociations().size()); } }

DisassociateFaces operation response

The response for DisassociateFaces includes the UserStatus, which is the status of the disassociation request, as well as a list of FaceIds to be unassociated. A list of UnsuccessfulFaceDisassociations is also returned. After submitting a request to DisassociateFaces, the operation may take a minute or so to complete. For this reason, the UserStatus is returned, which can have the following values:

  • CREATED - Denotes that the ‘User’ is created successfully and no faces are associated to it currently. ‘User’ will be in this state before any successful ‘AssociateFaces’ call is made.

  • UPDATING - Denotes that the ‘User’ is being updated to reflect the newly associated/disassociated faces and will become ACTIVE in few seconds. Search results may contain ‘User’ in this state and customers can choose to ignore them from the returned results.

  • ACTIVE - Denotes that theUseris updated to reflect all associated/disassociated faces and is in a searchable state.

{ "UserStatus": "UPDATING", "DisassociatedFaces": [ { "FaceId": "c92265d4-5f9c-43af-a58e-12be0ce02bc3" } ], "UnsuccessfulFaceDisassociations": [ { "Reasons": [ "ASSOCIATED_TO_A_DIFFERENT_IDENTITY" ], "FaceId": "f5817d37-94f6-4335-bfee-6cf79a3d806e", "UserId": "demoUser1" } ] }

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