Face Recognition Technology Has Entered the Vision of the Majority of Users, Stepped on the Accelera
With the promotion of artificial intelligence, face recognition technology is being more and more widely used. Face recognition not only covers the streets, but also brings people a convenient life in more service fields. However, in a large market of tens of billions, we also need to pay attention to the practical needs of personal privacy and public safety, promote the standardization of industry and market, and ensure the sustainability of development.
In the past two years, with the "third spring" of artificial intelligence, face recognition technology has made an important breakthrough and began to be widely used in security and other fields.
At the end of August this year, London Metropolitan Police officially launched the face recognition system. When the police station began to use the system to help maintain law and order, an embarrassing scene occurred. In only one day, 35 problems occurred due to identification errors, and 30 wrong people were arrested. This incident has raised many people's questions about face recognition. Is this technical level suitable for application? Isn't this trouble?
In fact, we need to realize that any technology needs to go through a process of running in and adaptation. Even if it has been widely used, it is also affected by multiple factors such as product quality, application level, operation level and real environment. Therefore, this incident can not explain that face recognition technology is so "useless", but can only be said to be a rather sad episode.
In fact, today's face recognition technology is widely used not only in public areas such as airports, railway stations and accommodation buildings, but also in "ordinary places" such as video surveillance and even toilet carton pumping. Since this year, face recognition technology has begun to be "reused" in electronic payment, smart phones and other scenarios, and continues to expand its commercial territory. It can be seen that face recognition technology itself does not have any problems, but is greatly recognized and welcomed by the market.
The face recognition market of "opening up Xinjiang and expanding land" has stepped on the accelerator and continued to accelerate, with broad prospects. According to the data of prospective industry research institute, the market scale of China's face recognition industry has exceeded 1 billion yuan in 2016, and it is expected to reach about 5.1 billion yuan by 2021. This data is obviously conservative, while another more optimistic data shows that the scale of China's face recognition market was about RMB 12.374 billion in 2016, and it is predicted that the scale of China's face recognition market will exceed RMB 40 billion in 2018.
Above the tuyere, capital surged. According to public data, in July this year, Shangtang technology, an enterprise in the region, announced that it had completed round B financing of US $410 million, while Shanghai Yitu technology and Beijing Kuangshi technology had completed round C financing of RMB 380 million and US $100 million respectively.
Compared with developed countries, the field of face recognition in China is still in the stage of "making up lessons", and the development space is still very huge. In addition to the application scenarios mentioned above, in the future, face recognition technology is expected to obtain more popular applications in many fields such as education, finance, health, border inspection, construction, office, prison and so on. Therefore, a greater outbreak is far from coming.
However, although face recognition technology has brought new development opportunities and played a positive role in security and other fields, we can not ignore the popularity of large-scale face recognition technology, which is also a threat to personal privacy and public security. Today, with the increasing importance of big data, enterprises operating face recognition equipment can collect a large number of public personal information, and the current situation of illegal sale of personal privacy is very serious.
Therefore, the state should speed up the legislation on the application of new technologies such as face recognition, standardize the rights and obligations of enterprises in collection, storage and utilization, strengthen the protection of public biological information, and strengthen the crackdown on the illegal sale of personal information. Only by developing carrots and sticks at the same time and dialectically looking at the development of new technologies and products can we promote the healthy and sustainable development of this industry.
In addition, enterprises should also take the initiative to shoulder social responsibilities and legal obligations, effectively maintain public privacy and safety, standardize application processes, avoid unnecessary collection, safely store information and data and use them within a legal and reasonable range.
The wave of face recognition has obviously covered other technologies such as fingerprint recognition and digital password. The future development prospect is immeasurable and is expected to become one of the landmark applications in the future world. We hope that the changes and positive effects produced by the arrival of new technology can serve mankind to achieve a better life, which is also the biggest driving force for mankind to adhere to innovation and progress.
