SHARE Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon Lookout for Vision, a cloud service that uses machine learning to spot defects and anomalies in visual representation using computer vision. Designed with manufacturing companies in mind, the service can identify differences in images of objects at large scale, delivering the ability to identify manufacturing and production defects such as cracks, dents, incorrect colors and irregular shapes. The technology uses a technique called “few-shot learning” so it can train a model for a customer using as few as 30 baseline images. Amazon Lookout for Vision can process thousands of images an hour to spot defects and anomalies with no machine learning experience required. Customers send camera images to Amazon Lookout for Vision in real-time to identify anomalies, such as damage to a product’s surface, missing components and other irregularities in production lines. In addition to enabling the service to detect anomalies without large amounts of training data, this capability allows the service to adapt to a wide range of inspection tasks within industrial settings.