Baidu AI direct contacts with Parents Who Lost Son Kidnapped Then 27 years

Support facial recognition technology has been widely implemented for various purposes other than that of a creepy thing that makes a person's privacy at risk. In China, for example, support this technology turns out to have been able to help a couple of parents in finding abducted children who disappeared during 27 years without known jungle.

Call it a man named Fu Gui feel strange that so far it just feels have faint memories of his childhood, then the curiosity fatal during childhood so he quickly upload photos taken when she was 10 years old to a website called Baobeihuijia , which means "Baby Come Home". While the accident that his parents had been looking for him also was also going to upload a photo of his childhood on the website a few months later. And thanks to facial recognition technology Baidu eventually they are reunited until now. Tens of thousands of children have been kidnapped in China every year, sold to the foster parents or even more bad guys who use them for prostitution or slavery of children. Baobeihuijia created to reunite families torn apart by the abduction. Over the years, volunteers painstakingly comparing the photos uploaded by people who look for family members, people who want to know their origins or other people who care. And then in March, Baidu's cross-age facial recognition technology, which has been tested since November last year. AI Baidu has found some similarities case since the website started using face recognition technology a few months ago. Although the system itself is still considered far from perfect and could only match the photos were taken six years apart, yet so as transmitted China to Google that these technologies have accuracy up to 99.77 percent, and there is definitely a system that can identify more photos faster than humans in general can do.