China employs some of the world’s most sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance, including facial recognition.
But the coronavirus, which emerged in Hubei province late last year, has resulted in almost everyone wearing a surgical mask outdoors in the hope of warding off the virus - posing a particular problem for surveillance.
The team began work on the system in January, as the coronavirus outbreak gathered pace, and began rolling it out to the market after just a month. Using Hanwang’s technology, the ministry can cross-reference images with its own database of names and other information and then identify and track people as they move about, Huang said.But the system struggles to identify people with both a mask and sunglasses, he said.
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