China Working On 'Repression Network' Which Lets Cameras Identify Cars With Unprecedented Accuracy (thesun.co.uk)

schwit1 shares a report from The Sun: Researchers at a Chinese university have revealed the results of an investigation aimed at creating a "repression network" which can identify cars from "customized paintings, decorations or even scratches" rather than by scanning its number plate. A team from Peking University said the technology they have developed to perform this task could also be used to recognize the faces of human beings. Essentially, it works by learning from what it sees, allowing it to differentiate between cars (or humans) by spotting small differences between them. "The growing explosion in the use of surveillance cameras in public security highlights the importance of vehicle search from large-scale image databases," the researcher wrote. "Precise vehicle search, aiming at finding out all instances for a given query vehicle image, is a challenging task as different vehicles will look very similar to each other if they share same visual attributes." They added: "We can extend our framework [software] into wider applications like face and person retrieval [identification] as well."

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"Freedom vs Repression" networks

[Anonymous Coward]

If the network is ran in US, it is a "freedom" network. Spreading freedom can also mean dropping bombs and starting wars oversea.

Re: "Freedom vs Repression" networks

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget that the CCTV networks in the UK are "crimefighting" and "freedom inducing." And that the EU endorses identification and tracking of its subjects in order to protect them from the horrors of Not Being Forgotten when they do publicly stupid shit.

Re:"Freedom vs Repression" networks

[Gravis Zero]

I found a member of the 50 Cent Army! ;)

Re:Violent crime in China

[Antique Geekmeister]

Domestic violence, especially rape, is also vastly under-reported.

Re:Seems problematic.

[Tablizer]

Something as simple as your car being dirty and then cleaning it would fool such

If it's combined with plate reading and the same car keeps changing profile, you'd get put on the Suspicion List and watched more. I suppose you could trick it a couple of times, but keeping that up risks triggering the fiddling flag. (Now why does that sound perverted?)

Re:Seems problematic.

[messymerry]

I was going to mod you up, but then decided to reply. I don't think the push is really for cars. The real effront (sp. ;-) is to get cheap viable facial recognition in the wild. The Digital Panopticon is almost upon us. This is going to become a very serious issue in the next decade.