Chinese company develops system for recognizing faces behind masks amid coronavirus outbreak

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One of Hanvon’s big customers is the country’s Ministry of Public Security, which runs the police

Passengers wearing face masks stand on a moving walkway at Beijing Capital International Airport on March 9, 2020.A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus, and help in the fight against the disease.

“If connected to a temperature sensor, it can measure body temperature while identifying the person’s name, and then the system would process the result, say, if it detects a temperature over 38 degrees,” Hanwang Vice President Huang Lei told Reuters in an interview. It sells two main types of products that use the technology. One performs “single channel” recognition that is best used at, for example, entrances to office buildings.

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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China is so far ahead technologically wise, it is almost too late to stop them. Let's hope the stupid Cuck of Canada who 'admires China communism' has a rude awakening before Huawei is able to completely infiltrate our nation. Will Robert Blair, USA, be able to smarten him up?

Creepy.

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