To search for all faces in an input image, you might first call the API, and then use the face IDs returned in subsequent calls to the API.
You can also call the DetectFaces
API and use the bounding boxes in the response to make face crops, which then you can pass in to the SearchFacesByImage
API.
The response returns an array of faces that match, ordered by similarity score with the highest similarity first. More specifically, it is an array of metadata for each face match found. Along with the metadata, the response also includes a similarity
indicating how similar the face is to the input face. In the response, the API also returns the bounding box (and a confidence level that the bounding box contains a face) of the face that Rekognition used for the input image.
For an example, see example3.
This operation requires permissions to perform the rekognition:SearchFacesByImage
action.