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Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People By How They Walk; Police Have Started Using It on Streets of Beijing and Shanghai (apnews.com)
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. From a report: Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, "gait recognition" is part of a push across China to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance that is raising concern about how far the technology will go. Huang Yongzhen, the CEO of Watrix, said that its system can identify people from up to 50 meters (165 feet) away, even with their back turned or face covered. This can fill a gap in facial recognition, which needs close-up, high-resolution images of a person's face to work. "You don't need people's cooperation for us to be able to recognize their identity," Huang said in an interview in his Beijing office. "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."
...the Ministry of Silly Walks.
I know, but now we got it out of the way.
Muh huh huh huh huh ha *CRASH*
It doesn't even matter if it works, only if Chinese people believe that it works.
In china you're a slave and property of the communist party.
Put a pebble in one shoe and wear a loose jacket...
Walk like an Egyptian.
as Drug sniffing dogs and this gem.
Basically, it's an excuse for the cops to pull you over and ask questions when you're not doing anything wrong. Heck, if anything it's a good sign that the Chinese are resorting to this kind of mumbo jumbo. It shows their people are starting to become conscience of the notion of civil rights.
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I remembering "recognizing" my parents from across a parking lot as a little kid based on how they moved and I just thought for ages everyone did it. I was probably a teenager before I made a comment like, "Oh, there's Joe! I can tell by how he walks," and whoever I was with looked at me like I was pulling his leg.
I know some other people must do this, but it seems to be relatively uncommon practice for people (or maybe it's an unconscious thing for most people and I just do it consciously?)
anyone else thinking about using electrical pads to stimulate twitchs in your legs randomly ?
I think a TENS unit and an arduino would do this nicely.
Of course it can be stopped. Either because the "managed and stabilised society" becomes an unlivable hell-hole and enough people decide they don't want the current government to govern them any longer, or because the people decide they don't want "unstoppable trends" watching their every move and their government actually listens. Making it happen... well, the current Chinese government is rather dense.
What people do not realize (because they ignore or do not know human history), "criminals" described Jews in Nazi Germany, "politically unreliable people" under Stalin, etc. The next Hitler will get all his victims served on a plate, no way to hide. The only way to prevent that is to ban these technologies outright and very clearly label them as what they are: A tool for oppression that is a severe threat to anybody.
Oh, and actual criminals are either not important enough or get caught just fine without technology like this.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
(and Christopher Walken can demonstrate if you'd like)
... walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the worm ...
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Gait recognition has been around for quite awhile. I worked at a company that deployed a gait biometric system in 2012 or so. It came from an Israeli company, FST Biometrics Results in our case were mixed, but they had several very large customers (e.g. Google) who were using it with good results.
I recently heard rhe same thing from a former disguise expert from the CIA.
Put pebbles in your shoes so your gait is changed.
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and it won't attract the worm
After all, where do you think most of the spies during WW II were trained?
Gait modification, clothing/reversible switches, and other techniques defeat this tech fairly easily, after 10-15 minutes of training.
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The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is an XML-based information exchange framework used by the US government to grease the sharing of information between departments. It was started in the Bush administration in 2005. I first noticed it around 2008 and it contained fields to define PersonGait at that time (version 2 I think).
They have deleted some of these fields since then. I suspect they did so because it gave out too much information about what they are doing though it is also possible the new administration rolled back the push into some of these areas.
The rules for getting data components added to the model include a requirement that the data components must already be in use by at least 2 different departments. So, in 2008, at least 2 departments of the government were using a person's gait as an identifying characteristic.
I have included a list of the fields in the "PersonAugmentationType" data type for the V2.0 version of the spec from a decade ago below. Many are interesting including: body odor, ear shape, finger geometry, gait, hand geometry, keystroke dynamics, lip movement, urine, vein pattern, etc.
The NIEM is publicly available and published on Github. I highly recommend downloading one of the older versions before they sanitized it, like V2.0 or so, and spending some time looking at the spreadsheets that describe it. The insight to be gained in what the government has reason to store about us is extensive.
Man, it's hilarious reading the posts from Slashdot paranoiacs whenever one of these biometric surveillance stories are posted. Pebbles in the shoe, that'll fool the AI! LOL.
Wecome to Nazi china e-papers please!
I very very long time ago -- twenty, thirty years ago -- I read a book on the human art of spying. There was a lengthy discussion about evading capture when spying in enemy territory.
A few pages discussed the concept that when someone is following you, on-foot, through a busy shopping mall, you ought to alter your gait, since that's a very easy way that human eyes track human prey.
The chapter ended with a simple, and straight-forward comment to the effect of: nothing is better than simply placing a small pebble in one of your shoes.
Was changing his gait.
In a society where imprisoning and or disappearing innocent people accidentally is more important then catching the maximum number of criminals and dissenters. Such a thing would not be accepted. However, that is not China.
I believe , if they could, they would simply require everyone to wear a thought monitoring device and arrest people for 'thinking wrongly'.
Of coarse, if you don't believe in free will, as required by the Chinese Communist Party embracing of atheism.
I suppose it is a logical use of technology to benefit the whole at the cost of something that is an illusion.
âoeTolerance applies only to persons, but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but never to persons.
Some robo-trolling is to discourage participation in erudite discussion sites. This state-sponsored trolling furthers the dictatorship.
Is Slashdot even looking into this?
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it's just a hop, skip and a jump away.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Yes. But do they have "skate" analysis? Longboards are great for getaways too. Decent weapon of last resort as well.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
I'm not walking when using my rental scooter*.
* hoverboard**
** Segway***
*** bike
Would it make any difference if their faces were visible?
Use custom orthotics. Also known as a pebble or cotton ball. One placed in your shoe and your gait changes. Also to change your body shape use a fat vest. The fat vest can be something so simple as a pillow. That and a reversible coat, one That’s adjustable and reversible; you’re all set. Of course don’t use it for routine. Only when needed.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
we've had Genocides for thousands of years. Every holy book you care to name is full of them. Every history has a few. They're common.
What leads to genocide is poverty. People turn to genocide to cull the herd. The Nazis were the most obvious example. Here's a good video describing Nazi ideology and it's practical applications. The TL;DR is that while it was expensive to exterminate the Jews it was advantages because they got to pocket their wealth (Close to $300 billion in today's money) and they could divert food resources to feed their soldiers. The Russians did the same. And Human Sacrifice was much the same thing too.
If you want to stop genocide the solution is to keep everyone fed and economically secure. People turn on each other out of desperation and the leadership allow it to maintain order by reducing surplus population. Poverty causes genocide. Not technology.
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Or goosestep like the nazi faggot you are??
I don't know why the Chinese government bothers to preserve this paper-thin pretense that they give a shit about how their citizens feel about anything and just get it over with: implant tracking chips in everyone from birth so they can be wirelessly tracked 24/7/365 for as long as they live. That's about where they're going with this. It's not like the average Chinese citizen, by now, doesn't already realize that they have zero privacy and zero rights of any kind anyway.
>erudite discussion sites
Now who's trollin' the trolly troll, troll?
Your bosses are able to track you now, either by how you trot, or how you look.
bloody git.
Go back to sucking on Xi's knob.
Back in the early 1980's I toook a course from Robert Mann, at MIT, about biomechanical work. They'd put pressures sensors in the head of an artifical femur and replaced a human hip, and learned from their experiements that hips often break for older, weak-boned people *when standing up*, not the previously suspected "they fell and broke their hip!". It was great fun, they'd put reflectors on people's legs and recorded their walk and projected 3D models of human gait.
When they asked if there were any questions, I said "this was a woman, right?" Everyone turned to stare at me. I said "what, you never *look*???" Look carefully: the hips give away a *lot* about body type age, and health. And hey, if your tastes run that way, it's fun!!!
I saw a video by a supposedly ex-CIA make-up woman, and she recommended putting a pebble into your shoe when in disguise, because it changes your gait significantly, and humans also do gait analysis subconsciously.
Brain drain...
[($)]
... simply by putting a pebble in your shoe.
Do not draw the attention of Shai Hulud
Bullshit. That's what they want people to think.
But you probably have to put a really painful object in one shoe, and smoke some weed, and listen to a lot of reggae.
Pretty soon, everyone with a Keyser So:ze limp will be arrested on sight. And he won't talk himself out of that one, because of the international Chinese gesture of "speak to the hand", which will actually be a palm-sized voice recorder, connected to an AI application, with only one defined output: "not convinced".
How has nobody posted this before me?!
If you walk without rhythm... you won't attract the worm.
If you walk without rhythm... you'll never learn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself about...
THAT'S what it's all about!
Seems like a good time to learn irregular walk, so the worms won't detect us.
shoes. Your shadow might be able to change clothing, headwear, glasses, gait, etc. fairly easily, but few people carry an extra pair of shoes.
Start dancing and the people watching the camera feeds will start dancing too, but they wont be able to keep up with your MJ moves so they will explode when you do the final woooooo!
To the chinese for demonstrating to everyone what a full blown technological dystopia looks like. Oh, and the UK too. Surely Murica won't be too far behind, though hopefully the House won't stop Dear Leader Trumpski from clamping down on these leftist media outlets and their horrible, hurtful words.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.