The New Chinese Camera Are Able To Recognize Your Identity From The Way You Walk

The new Chinese Camera with surveillance software has the ability to determine the identity of people through a walking style, whether covered or turned the back to the camera. Authorities have applied the software in Shanghai and Beijing.

Watrix, the company that launched this new technology, revealed that they are trying to fix problems with face recognition software, improving image quality and facial expressions, according to the Associated Press.

About the way this particular software works, it has a digital model that analyzes the silhouette and walking style of the person through video surveillance and thereby creates a 3D model of style and stance from that person.

The Asia Times noted the AI analyzes stride length, foot length, dynamic base, speed, hip angle, leg angle and standing up and squat position from the recorded videos.

On Wednesday, Watrix chief executive Huang Yongzhen told the AP that the security footage was included in the software and that it would seek to find people who fit the database.

Once tested, the software took only 10 minutes to search through surveillance video that is about 1 hour long and from there create data to connect. According to Huang, his software recognizes people's identity and gait in the range of 50 meters (165 feet), with an accuracy of nearly 94 percent.

Huang also adds that, as the software tracks a suspect, he will never know he has been tracked until the police search him out.

By 2017, Human Rights Watch reports that the Chinese government always collects voice samples from Chinese citizens so that they can identify the speaker by speaking. The report also said that up to 70,000 voice samples were collected by Chinese police from residents of Anhui Province in eastern China.

Facial recognition is also the most common method of speech recognition. Chinese police now have 1 billion faces recorded and saved.

China is currently monitoring the Xinjiang region with the aim of reducing the population of Uighur Muslims. Earlier, many of people in this denomination were sent to re-education camps.

Huang said that the software is not only intended for use in human trafficking or crime, but it also can be applied to other cases such as the detection of old people falling into the street.