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Facial Recognition Technology Does NOT Spot Wanted Man In Crowd Of 60,000 Chinese Concert-Goers

U
Undisclosed #1
Apr 24, 2018

I really hate that title.... and the messaging is the same across hundreds of media outlets that have run similarly headlined versions of this story.

The technology spotted him at a choke point at the entrance to the venue - and then they tracked him down via surveillance to his seat.  Facial recognition can not scan 60K faces in a stadium and pick one person out, yet this is the messaging of the editors writing headlines to this story.

Also - how many of the other 59,999 people who came to this concert were similarly accosted at their seats based on false positives at the entrance choke point before they could prove they weren't the wanted person?

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JH
John Honovich
Apr 24, 2018
IPVM

Good find on that detail. The first media reports were unclear about how they found him with the implication that they were scanning the crowd with a PTZ or something.

This is similar to the BBC Dahua '11-minute' story. I am definitely curious about the false positives involved but, given the PRC's control over the media, it won't be easy to come by.

UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
Apr 24, 2018

Chinese news site Kan Kan reported that the man had been identified by facial recognition cameras trained on the venue's entrances.

Yup, pretty clear in the article but highly deceptive in the title. 

 

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