Interview with Han Wang and Huang Lei: The Global Pattern of Veterans in Face Recognition in China

【World Wide Web Reporter Lindi】 The annual Spring Festival grab-ticket battle has already begun. I remember that the face recognition system that started at the train station during the Spring Festival travel time in 2017 has caused widespread concern. Recently, Huang Lei, Vice President of Hanwang Technology, said in an exclusive interview with the Global Network Technology reporter that the “can” of intelligent identification technology has been crossed, and now it is necessary to consider how to apply from the application to the virtuous circle. He also pointed out that in terms of face recognition, China is the first country in the world to make embedded products and kick off the industry's curtain; while Hanwang is born with genes for artificial intelligence.

Photo: Huang Lei, vice president of Hanwang Technology

A face recognition veteran pattern: e face through the world

Hanwang began to do face recognition in 2005. In 2008, Hanwang launched the world's first embedded infrared recognition terminal. This product has two innovations. First, the use of infrared and visible light binocular 2.5D identification technology, the second is Using a DSP chip, the face recognition is made into an embedded product, so that the face recognition device is pulled from the previous 10,000 yuan level to a thousand yuan level, which opens the door to the industrialization of face recognition. Huang Lei said that people began to experience facial recognition technologies and products on various occasions, at work and in life, such as entrance and exit management, self-service consumption, mobile phone face recognition, and password lockboxes.

While the entire face recognition industry is booming, there are also some open issues or problems. For example, how do you get through different light sources? Different identification methods, can the iris palm print fingerprints be integrated? More fundamental problems, so many manufacturers, each of the technology is incompatible, how to solve? Huang Lei said that it may not be obvious now. After three or five years, this problem will surely erupt.

He mentioned a solution - Hanwang will focus on R&D in the future.

Personal data can be divided into two kinds, one is personal application data, daily changes in data, such as consumer records, attendance records, daily activity trajectory; one is the same data, or a long time constant data we call Personal attribute data. For example, faces, irises, fingerprints, and second-generation ID cards. Hanwang designed a data cloud platform for personal attribute data, designed a computing cloud platform by integrating various identification technologies, and combined the data cloud with the computing cloud to define an interconnected and interoperable cloud platform. The middle connection layer is a face recognition interconnection cloud platform, one end can be connected to various terminal devices, and the other end is connected to various applications, so as to achieve e-face through the world. "In the future, Hanwang will focus on this part of the intermediate connection layer and hand over equipment and applications to our partners to truly achieve win-win cooperation." Huang Lei also revealed that before the Spring Festival, relatively small-scale interconnection and application platforms for SME management and smart communities will be launched.

From catching up to leading global intelligence in China

It is reported that the face recognition program designed by Hanwang a decade ago has now become the industry standard for global embedded infrared face recognition, such as slope design and dual camera plus infrared light. It is coincidence that the newly released Apple iPhoneX is also adopted. Dual camera plus infrared program.

In fact, before 2014, China’s public security system has used a large number of face recognition technologies, but it is mainly foreign countries such as Germany, the United States, Japan and other countries. In 2014, Hanwang took the front-end face recognition algorithm for deep learning as the front end. On this basis, it began to replace foreign technology in 2015 to serve the public security market in China.

Huang Lei pointed out: "With the application of public security, we have served 2,576 public security units for three years, from the central level to the prefecture level, and we have also served all major domestic events in recent years. The face recognition of Hanwang was initiated. At the beginning, our goal was to face the world. Currently, there are 55 countries in the world that use Hanwang's face recognition technology and products. In 10 years, the sales of terminal equipment has reached one million units.”

"At present, only China can compete with the United States in the international arena. It has far surpassed the traditional security powers like Japan, Germany, and France. Chinese companies have now gradually occupied the global market. At the annual main exhibition of global security exhibitions. China’s enterprises can account for one-third or even half of the total. In terms of applications, such as France and the United States, there may be some government considerations and it is not convenient to use foreign technology, but most of the countries like the third world are used. China's products and equipment.” Huang Lei told Global Net Technology that the proportion of Hanwang’s products in the domestic and foreign markets is about 50% each.

When it comes to the international market, it is particularly exposed to fierce competition from the United States as the representative of developed countries. Huang Lei explained that the key is cost-effectiveness and service advantages. Security more faced with the B-side market is the need for installation, maintenance and training. This is precisely the strength of Chinese companies. It is difficult for foreign companies to do such landing services. The first is the human cost factor, the second is the cultural factor, and the Chinese culture is also suitable for us in the service industry, and there are inherent advantages in landing.

“Chinese people can achieve peaceful coexistence and equal treatment, and their dedication to respond to all-round services in 24 hours is a cultural difference.” Huang Lei told the Global Network Technology reporter that “opening overseas markets is actually a lot harder and cultural differences. In addition to capital investment and team building, because security equipment requires long-term service, it is a challenge for many companies, especially in third-world countries. This is a long process."

The future can be: ideal intelligence from parrots, crows to humanoids

He illustrated two species of animals. One is a parrot. The parrot learns the tongue. It is an imitation. It doesn't need to manage scenes and contexts. Now we have reached the cognitive level of artificial intelligence. Another kind of animal, the crow, it wants to see a nut. If it wants to eat and it won't open, then it will find a way - a few feet above it, it will not be opened, it will be placed on the road. After the car rolling, and then fly to eat. As time goes by, the car will die and it will find that the red light will stop and it will learn to wait until the red light is on. Now only Raven can do reasoning ability, which is the height of the next generation of artificial intelligence.

Huang Lei said, "At present, artificial intelligence technology is still in the perception layer, and it will be a huge span between perception and reasoning. Perception is through big data and intelligent analysis, but from perception to reasoning, this requires the next generation of technology. It will take about 5 years."

“It is clear to everyone that the biggest difference between humans and animals is the use of tools and manufacturing tools. Like crows will use tools, but not manufacturing tools. Artificial intelligence to reason layer, and then rise to a level, that artificial intelligence can make itself Tools, that is the intelligence of our true dream, and this will at least have to fight for 50 years." Huang Lei said with a smile.

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Hanwang Technology: The company under the Automation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has always had a name. The Center for Identification of Automation at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been doing artificial intelligence since its establishment more than 20 years ago. At present, Hanwang Technology has several subsidiary companies whose main business contents include handwriting recognition, OCR recognition, face recognition, document big data, air intelligence monitoring and management, and touch technology.

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