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Chinese Face Recognition Mistakes Bus Ad For Jaywalker
China has been using gait recognition as well as face recognition to automate the ticketing of jaywalkers, much like cameras are used in the USA to ticket people who run red lights. However, it turns out this system has some limits.
Facial recognition camera catches top businesswoman "jaywalking". Her face was on a bus https://t.co/6rbsNf208E Abacus (@AbacusNews) November 22, 2018
A facial recognition system in the city of Ningbo caught Dong Mingzhu, the chair of appliance-making giant Gree Electric, running a red light. Only it turned out not to be Dong, but rather an advertisement featuring her face on the side of a bus, local police said on Weibo Wednesday. The police said they have upgraded their tech to avoid issues like this in the future. Via CXLive.
Face recognition has an old history in science fiction. Nat Schachner and Leo Zagat (who often wrote together as Schachner and Zagat) described a wonderful selective electric eye in their 1931 classic Exiles of the Moon:
But the selective beam of the electric eye refused to swing open the portal. Already the orders of the master of the house had barred the door against her. The actuating mechanism that should have operated by the imprint of her image on the telephoto cell, remained dead.
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