CHINA-SECURITY: FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM

Isvision, a security company based in Shanghai, is developing a facial recognition system to cover 1.3 billion people.The system developed by Isvision will use an algorithm developed by SeetaTech, a start-up established by several researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Isvision security cameras with facial recognition capabilities were first deployed in Tiananmen Square as early as 2003, according to the company’s website. The system was connected to the police database of suspects, capable of recognising and tracking potential targets in a large crowd. The company has also set up similar systems for law enforcement authorities in Xinjiang and Tibet, where riots have broken out from time to time because of serious ethnic conflicts.







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