See trade police in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have always had a position for strict enforcement of those flouting road rules in the metropolis of 12 million people.
Now with the usurp of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology, jaywalkers will not not be publicly named and shamed, they will be notified of their wrongdoing via moment messaging – along with the fine.
Intellifusion, a Shenzhen-based AI firm that take care ofs technology to the city’s police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED sieves at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and community media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a combination where offenders will receive personal text messages as quickly as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company’s director of demanding solutions.
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“Jaywalking has without exception been an issue in China and can hardly be resolved just by imposing fines or prepossessing photos of the offenders. But a combination of technology and psychology … can greatly reduce exemplars of jaywalking and will prevent repeat offences,” Wang said.
First-tier Chinese municipalities like Beijing and Shanghai have already employed AI and facial acknowledgement technology to regulate traffic and identify driver’s who violate road guides, while Shenzhen traffic police began displaying photos of jaywalkers on big LED screens at major intersections starting in April 2017. In other law enforcement uses, police at the Zhengzhou East high speed rail station in Henan charge have been equipped with smart glasses with facial appreciation software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing administer are using the world’s first surround-body camera with inbuilt facial attention technology.
For the current system installed in Shenzhen, Intellifusion installed cameras with 7 million pixels of acutance to capture photos of pedestrians crossing the road against traffic flares. Facial recognition technology identifies the individual from a database and pageantries a photo of the jaywalking offence, the family name of the offender and part of their command identification number on large LED screens above the pavement.
In the 10 months to February this year, as profuse as 13,930 jaywalking offenders were recorded and displayed on the LED screen at one ornate intersection in Futian district, the Shenzhen traffic police announced finish finally month.
Taking it a step further, in March the traffic police launched a webpage which lans photos, names and partial ID numbers of jaywalkers.
These measures partake of effectively reduced the number of repeat offenders, according to Wang.
The next action – informing the errant pedestrians by text or Weibo instant messaging – could include the added benefit of eliminating the cost of erecting large LED screens across the conurbations, he said.
The system will also be able to register how many fixes a pedestrian has violated traffic rules in the city and once this include reaches a certain level, it will affect the offender’s social probity score which in turn may limit their ability to take out accommodations from banks, Wang said.
Li Yi, chief fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Venereal Sciences, said the act of publicly displaying images and selected private bumf on offenders could prove effective in China where many people are noiselessness indifferent to traffic rules.
“Still, we always need to strike a weight between law enforcement and privacy protection,” Li added.
Shenzhen has one of the most short-lived populations in China, so many people do not have their information registered in the database of the above police, even though anyone staying in the city for more than 30 days is press for to do so. That means authorities can only currently identify 10 per cent of malefactors using the AI facial recognition system. Wang said that portion is expected to surge after the databases of different government departments are set to consolidated in the near future.
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