Hong Kong scientists developed the most accurate face recognition software-face-recognition-IT news Hong Kong scientists developed the most accurate face recognition software

Recently, the Chinese University of Hong Kong scientists have developed the world's most accurate facial-recognition software, the process has reached near-perfect accuracy in the test, potentially subversive for public safety technology innovations.

Surveillance cameras have become a powerful tool to maintain public security, through which you can monitor a large number of people and look for potential dangers, but want very accurate identification of suspects or discovers dangerous behavior as difficult as just like a needle in a haystack. However, a new facial recognition program developed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong will soon make the job easier.

This record software developed by Tang Xiaoou, Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his team, reached 99.15% recognition accuracy in the test, more than all the similar software, even higher than human 97.53% recognition accuracy. This Tang Xiaoou said: "in particular, we achieved a good result a few months ago, in fact, it has gone beyond the human ability to recognize faces. Although this was a symbolic achievement, but researchers have been working on the job for more than 30 years, so it's really exciting to us. ”

In tests, such programs can be accurately identified from thousands of photos two photographs of the same person, and are not under the influence of factors such as lighting, makeup, camera angles. Through continuous improvement, this software will help law enforcement agencies or find individual security institution in tens of thousands of people, and also by reading facial expressions to anticipate violence. Wang Xiaogang, an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on their next goal: "we are trying to develop a computational model, trying to detect and analyze the behavior of crowds, and predict the potential for community disaster. But traditional monitoring methods, but only at very simple environment focusing on fewer goals. What we do is, monitoring hundreds of thousands of individuals in a complex environment. This problem is very challenging, we are working in this direction. ”

Scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong believe that, with the increasing processing speed of the computer, these issues will be addressed, which will lay the groundwork for the next generation of new public safety system.