Baidu uses new technology to help parents find lost kids
By Ni Yinbin |
February 22, 2011, Tuesday
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CHINA'S biggest search engine has launched an online platform recently to help parents find their lost children among pictures of child beggars uploaded by netizens, the company said yesterday.
Xunren.baidu.com has built a database containing thousands of pictures of both lost children and ones found on the street. Parents can possibly find their lost children by uploading profile pictures of them onto the platform.
With advanced face-recognition technology, provided by the China Academy of Sciences, the platform can match the lost children's pictures automatically with the same or similar ones among those uploaded by netizens - "which could greatly improve the efficiency for parents to find their children," said Wang Run, an engineer at Baidu, according to Shanghai Television last night.
People across China can also help street children to find their parents by simply taking a picture of them and uploading it onto the platform.
Thousands of pictures have been uploaded online since Netizens in China launched a nationwide campaign on the Internet to save child beggars and help them reunite with their families.
So far, most information in the database on the platform is provided by an non-governmental organization called Baobeihuijia, which helps parents to find lost children.
So far at least 16 children had been saved nationwide through the campaign.
The more pictures, the more difficult it is for parents to find their children, but the new search system could help solve the problem.
However, there were concerns that these data could also be used by illegal traffickers to hide the children if they are discovered by netizens or even disfigure them.
Xunren.baidu.com has built a database containing thousands of pictures of both lost children and ones found on the street. Parents can possibly find their lost children by uploading profile pictures of them onto the platform.
With advanced face-recognition technology, provided by the China Academy of Sciences, the platform can match the lost children's pictures automatically with the same or similar ones among those uploaded by netizens - "which could greatly improve the efficiency for parents to find their children," said Wang Run, an engineer at Baidu, according to Shanghai Television last night.
People across China can also help street children to find their parents by simply taking a picture of them and uploading it onto the platform.
Thousands of pictures have been uploaded online since Netizens in China launched a nationwide campaign on the Internet to save child beggars and help them reunite with their families.
So far, most information in the database on the platform is provided by an non-governmental organization called Baobeihuijia, which helps parents to find lost children.
So far at least 16 children had been saved nationwide through the campaign.
The more pictures, the more difficult it is for parents to find their children, but the new search system could help solve the problem.
However, there were concerns that these data could also be used by illegal traffickers to hide the children if they are discovered by netizens or even disfigure them.
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