(29 May 2019) LEADIN: The latest artificial intelligence technology is powering facial and body recognition devices, to guard sensitive locations or welcome us home after a long day.
A number of AI firms are demoing their recognition tech at Taipei's annual Computex show.
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At Taipei's annual Computex tech show, Taiwan-based Beseye is showcasing its AI-powered surveillance technology.
Beseye's machine learning system uses visual input from cameras to analyze the situation.
Marketing and sales director, Olya Huang, says it's able to "recognize" a person's gender, evaluate their age, and study their behaviour by analyzing the movement of their skeleton.
"There are already many image analysis companies on the market. Most of them focus on facial analysis (recognition). But being different, Beseye even provides skeleton analysis," she says.
"So, our product recognizes over 4,000 points on a human body. And through the connection of each joint, it figures out that person's age, gender and identity, or even his actual behavior.
"And through such analysis, we could understand what is happening in which situation."
Huang says Japanese railway company, Tokyu Corporation, is using Beseye's technology to monitor its train lines and prevent accidents.
"If an aged person crosses the railroad alone and falls down, we will deduce that this is a high 'danger index' situation and issue an alert to have the train driver stop his vehicle in time," she says.
Beseye is also applying AI-powered recognition and analysis technology to the home.
"When the house owner comes home, the system immediately recognizes him and links up other IoT devices to turn on the lights, or play his favorite music, locks up the door and creates a comfortable homey ambiance," explains software engineer Caesar Lee.
Another Taiwanese company, CyberLink, has developed a facial recognition engine to detect emotions through facial expressions.
Steven Lien, the director of Cyberlink's Marketing Department, says FaceMe is particularly useful in a retail setting.
It can be used to monitor customers' reactions to certain products.
"In the smart retail scenario, our facial recognition can identify a person, recognize a person and extract the demographic like age, gender and emotions," he says.
"For example, we can recognize the people (are) happy or sad or angry. So, in a retail store, we can know how many people are visiting my store, what's their gender, what's their age, and how many times they've visited the store today, and how they feel about my products."
Facial recognition is a hot topic at the moment.
The U.S. city of San Francisco voted to ban the use of facial recognition software by police and other city departments earlier this month (15 May), making it the first U.S. city to outlaw a rapidly developing technology that has alarmed privacy and civil liberties advocates.
Computex Taipei 2019 opened 28 May and will run till June 1 2019.
The tech show is held annually in the Taiwanese capital between May and June.
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