International. A group of Chinese scientists managed to develop a 500-megapixel cloud camera system that enables Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is capable of capturing thousands of faces in a stadium in perfect detail and generating their facial data for the cloud while locating a particular target in an instant.
Most Chinese experts welcomed the camera system's military, national defense and public security applications, though some expressed security and data privacy concerns.
The camera was developed by Shanghai Fudan University and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province, northeastern China.
The camera system with 500 magapixel resolution, five times the 120 million pixel resolution of the human eye, can capture extremely detailed images, according to the report. For example, in a stadium with tens of thousands of people, the camera can take a panoramic photo with a clear image of each human face, according to the report.
When integrated with AI, facial recognition, real-time monitoring, and cloud computing technology, the camera can detect and identify human faces or other objects based on big data and find specific targets instantly.
The report says the camera system is capable of creating videos of the same ultra-high resolution as images, thanks to two special chips developed by the same team. Massive videos and images captured by the camera can also be uploaded to a cloud data center.
"People around the world could log in to get the data," said Zeng Xiaoyang, one of the scientists on the research team. In public safety, Zeng said, for example, if police set up the camera system in downtown Shanghai, they could monitor crowd distribution in real time at a management center to prevent accidents.
Li Daguang, a professor at the People's Liberation Army National Defense University in Beijing, said the system could be applied to national defense, military and public security. The report did not mention which department or government agency was purchasing the cloud camera system.
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Source: Global Times.
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