Technology

There are already over 700 million CCTV cameras installed in cities worldwide, with 20 cities having over 10 cameras installed per every 1,000 residents. Furthermore, video data captured by privately owned cameras, body-worn cameras, smartphones, drones, and dashcams offer additional precious sources of intelligence that cities can use to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of...

Advances in video analytics and artificial intelligence have drastically improved the accuracy and speed of detection and recognition of people’s characteristics, such as faces, body attributes, gender, age, as well as objects, such as vehicle make, body type, and color. Increasingly, the performance of humans in recognizing and interpreting images is being surpassed by computer...

The world is urban. According to the UN, almost 70 percent of people will live in cities by 2050. City leaders that want to deliver on the promise of UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 to «Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable» must make the city economic growth inclusive, the infrastructure more...

As a team of engineers, we are firm believers in technology for good, however face recognition companies must actively monitor the deployment of their technologies to ensure that that value is upheld, irrespective its deployment. In consideration of smart cities – it is generally the police who would use face recognition software. The criminal databases...