Train custom computer vision defect detection model using Amazon SageMaker

On October 10, 2024, Amazon announced the discontinuation of the Amazon Lookout for Vision service, with a scheduled shut down date of October 31, 2025 (see Exploring alternatives and seamlessly migrating data from Amazon Lookout for Vision blog post). As part of our transition guidance for customers, we recommend the use of Amazon SageMaker AI tools to build applications for customers who are interested in AI/ML computer vision models for automated quality inspection use cases. To support that effort, AWS has made a pre-trained computer vision defect detection model available on AWS Marketplace that can be fine-tuned using Amazon SageMaker AI for a customer’s specific use case. If run in the cloud, this model only requires paying for infrastructure costs for training or inference. This approach provides the tools to accelerate solution development while facilitating complete flexibility to build a solution that integrates with any existing hardware and ...