{"id":1409,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/facial-recognition-used-to-fine-jaywalkers\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:18:45","slug":"facial-recognition-used-to-fine-jaywalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/facial-recognition-used-to-fine-jaywalkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Recognition Used to Fine Jaywalkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine this. You’re walking about town. You decide to be an efficient pedestrian and cross the street without permission from some jerk traffic light. Your renegade act gets caught on AI-powered CCTV that recognizes your face. A message pops up on your p<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine this. You’re walking about town. You decide to be an efficient pedestrian<\/a> and cross the street without permission from some jerk traffic light. Your renegade act gets caught on AI-powe red CCTV that recognizes your face. A message pops up on your phone containing a fine.<\/p>\n

This scene sounds like grim futurism, but it could soon be a reality in the Chinese city of Shenzen.<\/p>\n

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Image: Mashable<\/p>\n

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In Shenzen, a city with a population of over 12 million, a company called Intellifusion has worked with local police to\u00a0set up AI-powered boards by intersections. If you jaywalk, your face will appear on the board —\u00a0alongside your family name. Now, Intellifusion is looking to work with mobile carriers and messaging platforms like WeChat, China’s version of WhatsApp, to notify jaywalkers of their transgression on their phones.<\/p>\n

“Jaywalking has always been an issue in China,” Wang Jun,\u00a0Intellifusion’s\u00a0director of marketing<\/a> solutions, told SCMP. “A combination of technology and psychology \u2026 can greatly reduce instances of jaywalking and will prevent repeat\u00a0offences.”<\/p>\n

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Image: Daily Mail<\/p>\n

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The power of China’s surveillance state is\u00a0immense,\u00a0and growing. The country’s CCTV surveillance network, which\u00a0by 2020 will be made up of over 600 million AI-powered CCTV cameras, is currently able to track citizens, and identify what car they drive and even who their friends are. Back in February, officers in the Henan province were given\u00a0sunglasses with an AI-powered lens\u00a0that can recognize around 100,000 faces from a police database.<\/p>\n

Between the beginning of 2016 and April of 2017, traffic police in Shenzen worked on over 200,000 cases of jaywalking,\u00a0reported the state-owned China Daily.<\/p>\n

Over a period of 10 months, ending in February this year, the AI board in Shenzen displayed 13,930 faces of jaywalkers. Only 10 percent of the city’s population can be identified by Intellifusion’s AI system, but this number will rise dramatically once different provincial governments merge their databases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine this. You’re walking about town. You decide to be an efficient pedestrian and cross the street without permission from some jerk traffic light. Your renegade act gets caught on …","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[60,353,306,29,34,559,27,54],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-e-china-cities","tag-hiredchina","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-in-china","tag-marketing","tag-news","tag-sales-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}