The Hikvision Smart Classroom Behavior Management System

By: John Honovich, Published on May 22, 2018

Hikvision's rapidly growing offering of analytics, which we most recently examined with Hikvision's ethnic minority analytics, is now going into the education market where Hikvision aims to improve scholastic performance with artificial intelligence. This was first covered in the West by Reuters but we found and reviewed the Chinese source report.

In this note, we examine Hikvision's offering, the potential benefits and drawbacks, including accuracy concerns.

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Comments (27)

John Honovich

IPVM | 05/22/18 12:58pm

Since we are on Chinese education, the topic of academic performance is likely to come up and the oft-repeated claim that China students are better than US ones.

For a contrary view from a Professor at China's top business school see Bloomberg's China's Top Economic Risk? Education article, key quotes:

headline-grabbing studies showing China's prowess on standardized tests evaluated only kids in rich and unrepresentative areas. When its broader population was included, China's ranking dropped across all subject areas.

According to the 2010 census, less than 9 percent of Chinese had attended school beyond the secondary level. More than 65 percent had gone no further than junior high. From 2008 to 2016, China's total number of graduate students actually decreased by 1 percent. Outside the richest areas, much of China's population lacks even the basic skills required in a high-income economy.

China is famous for requiring rote memorization of its students. But schools are also increasing classwork on communist ideology, Confucian thought and even Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Undisclosed Integrator #1

05/22/18 01:12pm

I wonder how well this tech would function when applied to a variety of people with different facial features than what a typical Chinese person possesses. I remember a facial recognition company a while ago telling us in a training class that they had difficulty training their system to differentiate different asian facial features as opposed to non-asian facial features. I wonder if these guys would face similar issue.

Either way im glad i didnt grow up in an age of video surveillance. How stressful I imagine that would be to be constantly evaluated.

Undisclosed #2

In reply to Undisclosed Integrator #1 | 05/22/18 01:30pm

I wonder how well this tech would function when applied to a variety of people with different facial features than what a typical Chinese person possesses

I am highly skeptical that this works even remotely close to what Hikvision is trying to portray here, so it would probably work equally poorly on students of any ethnicity.

Seriously, Hikvision can't even master basic cyber security concepts that have been well-documented for over a decade, and we are supposed to believe they are providing cutting-edge analytics like this?

I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that the "data" from this system is actually compiled by a subset of Hikvision's massive team of "engineers" manually viewing video and tabulating stats.

Undisclosed Manufacturer #3

05/22/18 01:47pm

I look forward to telling a friend who is a high school vice principal, that now he can evaluate teachers using this tool and recommend firing any teacher whose students don't raise their hands enough, smile enough, or appear to be alert enough.

Sean Nelson

Nelly's Security
05/22/18 01:54pm

The image shows all the asian kids being serious and the caucasion kid is goofing off. i am deeply offended by that.... J/K, i think its hilarious.

Back on topic, i dont get excited about all this bleeding edge technology anymore. Normally it simply doesn't work anywhere close to what customers expect. Nonetheless, someone or some company has to start somewhere with it.

Shannon Davis

TED Systems
In reply to Sean Nelson | 05/22/18 02:28pm

This will be more added to their "Social Credit" system.

John Bazyk

Command Corporation
IPVMU Certified | In reply to Sean Nelson | 05/22/18 03:59pm

I'm with you on this one. When I see it work, I'll believe it works.

Robert Shih

Independent
05/22/18 02:08pm

Very much against this. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting some discipline back in schools, but having this going in entirely the wrong direction. Respect and human interaction trumps machine learning by far.

Undisclosed #4

05/22/18 02:09pm

Nonetheless, someone or some company has to start somewhere with it.

When you have it, use it.

Undisclosed #5

IPVMU Certified | 05/22/18 04:05pm

...which poses the risk of ... adverse effects (i.e., students manipulating their expressions to appease the system).

“Manipulating your expression to appease” is an essential social skill, practiced everyday starting with your first “Good Morning!”

Joe LoRe

In reply to Undisclosed #5 | 05/28/18 08:38pm

Agreed people will always find a way to adapt against any sort of means of attempted manipulation of them. So instead of kids using your energy to actually paying attention and focus in class they will be using their energy to concentrate on how to appear to be focusing on class.