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Describes the specified collection. You can use DescribeCollection to get information, such as the number of faces indexed into a collection and the version of the model used by the collection for face detection.

For more information, see Describing a Collection in the Amazon Rekognition Developer Guide.

post/#X-Amz-Target=RekognitionService.DescribeCollection

Headers

X-Amz-Target'RekognitionService.DescribeCollection' required

Request body

CollectionIdstring required

The ID of the collection to describe.

Response

Success

FaceCountinteger

The number of faces that are indexed into the collection. To index faces into a collection, use <a>IndexFaces</a>.

FaceModelVersionstring
<p>The version of the face model that's used by the collection for face detection.</p> <p>For more information, see Model versioning in the Amazon Rekognition Developer Guide.</p>
CollectionARNstring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the collection.

CreationTimestampstring date-time

The number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch time until the creation of the collection. The Unix epoch time is 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970.