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Watrix claims its system can identify a person from up to 165 feet away even if their back is to a camera or their face turned away. It doesn’t require any special cameras, either — it can analyze existing surveillance footage to ID an individual with 94 percent accuracy.<\/p>
“You don’t need people’s cooperation for us to be able to recognize their identity,” Watrix CEO Huang Yongzhen told the AP<\/em>. “Gait analysis can’t be fooled by simply limping, walking with splayed feet, or hunching over, because we’re analyzing all the features of an entire body.”<\/p> However, the software doesn’t yet work in real time. It needs roughly 10 minutes to analyze about an hour’s worth of video, during which time it extracts a person’s silhouette and then creates a model of their individual gait.<\/p> It’s easy to see how this technology could be useful on a smaller scale. A company could produce a database of all its employees’ gaits and then use that database to ensure unauthorized individuals aren’t in restricted areas.<\/p> It’s harder to imagine how China could make use of the technology on a nationwide scale, though.<\/p> Facial recognition<\/a> tech is easy to implement because the faces of most citizens are already in government databases. Would the nation need to produce a similar database of citizen gaits? Or would the tech work retroactively — arrest someone for a crime, have them walk for you, and then compare their gait to that of the criminal caught on camera?<\/p> Whatever the case may be, police in Beijing and Shanghai are making use of this tech somehow<\/em>, which means it might just be a matter of time before anyone on the move in China will find themselves under the watchful eye of the nation’s government.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Chinese ‘Gait Recognition’ Tech IDs People by How They Walk<\/a> [Associated Press<\/em>]<\/p> More on Chinese surveillance: If You Jaywalk in China, Facial Recognition Means You’ll Walk Away With a Fine<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> Continued here: Big Brother China\u2019s\u00a0latest weapon in its war against citizen privacy: gait recognition software. Continue reading Eyes Everywhere<\/h2>
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