This is as scary as it is fascinating. So much for getting lost in the crowd.


A man wanted by police was nabbed at a pop star’s concert thanks to facial recognition technology -- which picked the alleged crook out of a crowd of 60,000 people.

Chinese police said the suspect – only identified as Mr. Ao – was attending a concert by pop star Jacky Cheung in Nanchang last weekend when he was spotted by CCTV cameras.

“The suspect looked completely caught by surprise when we took him away,” police officer Li Jin told state news agency Xinhua. “He didn’t think police would be able to catch him from a crowd of 60,000 so quickly.”

Authorities said Mr. Ao was identified by cameras equipped with facial recognition technology at the venue’s ticket entrance and apprehended by police after he sat down at his seat.

Li told China Daily that the CCTV system at the concert venue was connected to the police database.

Mr. Ao was wanted for “economic crimes.”

The BBC reported a local news site released footage that appeared to show Mr. Ao telling police if he had known about the cameras, he wouldn’t have gone to the concert.”

China has an extensive CCTV network with more than 170 million cameras.

Chinese police have used facial recognition technology to capture a number of suspects in the past. In August, police in Quigdao, Shandong province, arrested 25 fugitives thanks to cameras set at a local beer festival.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...-at-pop-concert.html

I saw this site a few years ago..... Just zoom in....or out:

http://www.gigapixel.com/image...apan-canucks-g7.html

Facial recognition in a crowd of 60,000 Chinese ....now THAT's technology!

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I saw this site a few years ago..... Just zoom in....or out:

http://www.gigapixel.com/image...apan-canucks-g7.html

That’s insane...even from 2011

This one is even crazier!

http://www.gigapixel.com/vancouver/van-city.html

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
This one is even crazier!

http://www.gigapixel.com/vancouver/van-city.html

Amazing, what’s more amazing is the time it took to white out all license plates on the vehicles.

They caught him at the ticket turnstile entrance, so it really is one person at a time.

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Originally posted by c1steve:
They caught him at the ticket turnstile entrance, so it really is one person at a time.

Oh, well now I'm not nearly as impressed. I thought they picked him up out of that massive crowd. That's what I get for just reading the headline.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Facial recognition in a crowd of 60,000 Chinese ....now THAT's technology!

As others have noted, the facial recognition scanner was posted at the ticket entrance so it's once face at a time.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I saw this site a few years ago..... Just zoom in....or out:

http://www.gigapixel.com/image...apan-canucks-g7.html

So, in a thread about sorting out 60,000 people in Nanchang, China, I randomly zoom in on this picture from Vancouver BC, and what do I find? A hot Asian chick.

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:
So, in a thread about sorting out 60,000 people in Nanchang, China, I randomly zoom in on this picture from Vancouver BC, and what do I find? A hot Asian chick.

Yep, she's a hottie alright.

Even more amazing is the couple having sex.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Facial recognition in a crowd of 60,000 Chinese ....now THAT's technology!

Not exactly. In a line of people, seems to me by the following statement:

“authorities said Mr. Ao was identified by cameras equipped with facial recognition technology at the venue’s ticket entrance and apprehended by police after he sat down at his seat.”

Edit: as already pointed out here.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Facial recognition in a crowd of 60,000 Chinese ....now THAT's technology!

They all look alike to me.

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newtoSig765: A hot Asian chick.
rusbro: Even more amazing is the couple having sex.

It would be cool if the image viewers provided image/cursor coordinates.

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I saw this site a few years ago..... Just zoom in....or out:

http://www.gigapixel.com/image...apan-canucks-g7.html

So, in a thread about sorting out 60,000 people in Nanchang, China, I randomly zoom in on this picture from Vancouver BC, and what do I find? A hot Asian chick.

To be fair, there are a lot of hot Asian chicks in Vancouver. It ain’t like you found the needle in the haystack...

you did better than me, I zoomed in and this is what I got:

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
This one is even crazier!

http://www.gigapixel.com/vancouver/van-city.html

Amazing, what’s more amazing is the time it took to white out all license plates on the vehicles.

If you look closely I don't think the license plates are whited out. But what I did notice is moving objects seem to be duplicated. If you look at the cars in the middle more open stretches you'll notice that they are doubled. About 30-50 feet between them.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
This one is even crazier!

http://www.gigapixel.com/vancouver/van-city.html

Even more crazier than that > Terapixel

https://viewer.gigamacro.com/v...1=12834.28&rot1=0.00

FWIW, it is essentially made by sewing multiple pictures together, not your typical cam.

^^^ radinski

That is strange.



The 3 cars circled are duplicated in the same lane, with the cars in the same relative formation.

The 1 car circled is duplicated in different lanes and in different relationship to the other cars.

The upper duplicate cars appear brighter and in sharper focus.

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
To be fair, there are a lot of hot Asian chicks in Vancouver. It ain’t like you found the needle in the haystack...

Canada is indeed blessed! I was in line for a takeout lunch in Toronto some years back, happened to turn around and behind me was the most beautiful woman I've seen in my whole life -- yes, Asian.