Sen Corporation "Yes Cheese! Album" Reduced work time by 1/3 by using Amazon Rekognition in the production of graduation albums. Launched "Person Tally Tally Chart" function to keep the number of appearances of preschool children equal.

When our representative was a member of the graduation album committee, he said, "It is quite a painstaking task to count all the photos, even the tiny reflections in the corners of the photos, select photos so that everyone in the class appears in the album on average, and lay them out neatly in the album. He said, "Yes, cheese! The new "automatic person count" feature added to "Albums" may not look like much, but it may prove to be a blessing in disguise for the committee members who create the graduation albums. Let's take a look at the details from the release!

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~Working Method Reform MEXT released a collection of case studies, and the graduate system is performing well - 246% compared to the previous year.

(headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Nobuaki Chiba, President & CEO; hereinafter referred to as "Sen"), a provider of childcare DX services, announces that it will start offering "Person Aggregation Chart" using Amazon Rekognition of Amazon Web Services (hereinafter referred to as AWS) for its graduation album production service "Yes Cheese! Album (https://album.8122.jp/), a graduation album production service, utilizing Amazon Rekognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and announces that it will begin offering a "Personality Tally Chart" in July 2021.
The "Yes Cheese! Album" is one of the "Yes Cheese! series, which is used by more than 8,000 groups of nursery schools and kindergartens nationwide. The number of users of the album service grew significantly year-on-year to 2,461 tp6t due to the recent reform of work styles and the growing interest in non-contact in Corona.

Background of the launch of the "Person Tally Chart" using Amazon Rekognition

Usually, a graduation album takes about 5 to 6 months to produce with the cooperation of "album staff" consisting of teachers and parents. A total of 30 hours* are required to complete the album. The main tasks include selecting the necessary photos from the thousands of photos taken during the preschool period, counting the number of times each child appeared in the album in the correct order so that as many photos as possible of each child appear in the album, and making sure that the number of photos is not skewed.

Last year, "Yes Cheese! Album" began offering an "automatic person count function" that allows the system to tally the number of preschoolers appearing on each page. This function made it possible to produce the album in about half the time compared to the previous method, but it was necessary to manually create a list of the number of times a child appeared in the album as a whole, and update the list each time a photo was replaced on each page. With the current trend of fewer parent-participation events at Corona Disaster, parents are more interested in the "graduation album," which contains precious memories of their children's time at the school, and it has become increasingly important to ensure that the number of times each child appeared in the album was equal.
Off-line production time calculated based on our client's actual results.

About the industry's first "Personnel Tally Sheet" *1

In order to ensure an equal number of photos on each page of the album, the number of times a preschooler appears on each page is automatically counted using AWS, and the number of times the child appears can be checked on the person list in the system. The recognition rate of children appearing in the album is as high as 95% or more,Further time savings of approximately 20%*2 over the current system through the use of a person tally tableThe following is a summary of the results of the study.
1 In-house research
2 Trial calculation based on production time data from the test group.

The future of "Yes, Cheese! Album" in the future

In our experience, about two-thirds of graduation album productions have been teacher-led and one-third parent-led. Although there have been calls for reforms in work styles, the workload of childcare workers is still heavy, and parents are also busy with the increasing number of dual-earner families. We have been providing this service with the desire to make the "culture" of adults working together to create albums for their children as easy as possible. We will continue to develop a user-oriented system that reduces work time and further strengthen our customer support system to ensure that even first-time producers do not make mistakes! Album" in terms of the number of organizations using the service.187% compared to the previous yearThe goal is to achieve the following

About Sen Corporation (Website) https://sencorp.co.jp/ )

Sen Corporation develops and sells childcare tech services that enrich the environment surrounding children through more than 8,000 organizations nationwide, including nursery schools and kindergartens. Its flagship service, "Yes Cheese! (https://info.8122.jp/(AWS) is a web service that captures photos of annual school events and sells them on the Internet. The service is characterized by the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI technology as a "face search function" that allows users to find children's photos more quickly and more easily! Album," an album production service that applies this technology. We also offer "Hoisys!https://hoiku-ict.com/hoisys/(ICT) is a childcare business support system service. By converting daily childcare operations to ICT, we propose a new way to reduce the workload of teachers and a new form of communication with parents.

Company Profile
Thousand Corporation
President and Representative Director: Nobuaki Chiba
Head Office: Keidanren Kaikan 13F, 1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Established: October 2004
TEL: 03-6266-6662
Business Description:
Photography related business
-Internet photo sales service "Yes Cheese!
-Internet photo sales system "Yes Cheese! +" "Yes Cheese! Teacher Plan"
-Graduation album production service "Yes Cheese! Albums".
-Photography (including studio, corporate and individual)
Video Business
-Video platform service "Sono Channel
ICT business for childcare services
-Hoisys, a nursery school business support system
-Hoimin, a noon sleep check application
Advertising and sales promotion business, marketing support business

*Hi, Cheese! is a registered trademark of Sen Corporation.
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