China employs some of the world's most sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance. FMTNews
Firm claims it has facial recognition technology to identify everyone in a crowd of up to 30 people ‘within a second’.
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 Beijing-based firm said a team of 20 staff used core technology developed over the past 10 years, a sample database of about 6 million unmasked faces and a much smaller database of masked faces, to develop the technology,
The other more powerful product is a “multi-channel” recognition system that uses “multiple surveillance cameras”.“When wearing a mask, the recognition rate can reach about 95%, which can ensure that most people can be identified,” Huang said, adding the success rate for people without mask is about 99.5%.A big customer, not surprisingly, is the Ministry of Public Security, which runs the police.
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