{"id":75811,"date":"2018-02-07T22:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T06:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/chinese-cops-are-wearing-glasses-that-can-recognize-faces"},"modified":"2018-02-07T22:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T06:42:35","slug":"chinese-cops-are-wearing-glasses-that-can-recognize-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/chinese-cops-are-wearing-glasses-that-can-recognize-faces","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cops are wearing glasses that can recognize faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-cops-are-wearing-glasses-that-can-recognize-faces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI that identifies people in crowds is already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610068\/chinas-facial-recognition-startups-can-probably-pick-you-out-of-a-crowd\/\" target=\"_blank\">pervasive in China<\/a>\u2014and now it\u2019s augmenting police officers\u2019 eyes, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smart specs:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinese-police-go-robocop-with-facial-recognition-glasses-1518004353\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> says<\/a> the hardware, made by LLVision, sends data from its camera to a handheld device, where AI software crunches through an offline database of 10,000 pictures of suspects in about 100 milliseconds to help officers spot criminals. It\u2019s unclear how accurate it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How they\u2019re used:<\/strong> The glasses will be used to monitor busy crowds in China as citizens travel for next week\u2019s Lunar New Year. But the <em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em> newspaper says they\u2019ve already been tested in Zhengzhou railway station, catching seven wanted criminals and 26 people travelling on fake ID.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610214\/chinese-cops-are-using-facial-recognition-specs\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-02-07&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610214\/chinese...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI that identifies people in crowds is already pervasive in China\u2014and now it\u2019s augmenting police officers\u2019 eyes, too. Smart specs: The Wall Street Journal says the hardware, made by LLVision, sends data from its camera to a handheld device, where AI software crunches through an offline database of 10,000 pictures of suspects in about 100 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}