Beijing metro to use facial recognition
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Beijing will use facial recognition tools to speed up security checks in the city鈥檚 overcrowded metro, using a 鈥渃redit system鈥 to sort passengers into different channels, state-run media reported yesterday.
The city plans to install cameras that will scan the faces of passengers as they enter a subway station and sort them into different security channels, according to Zhan Minghui, director of the Beijing Rail Traffic Control Center.
He said the plan involves creating a 鈥減assenger credit system鈥 and individuals on a 鈥渨hite list鈥 will be offered expedited security clearance, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Those who receive 鈥渁bnormal feedback鈥 after their faces are scanned will be subjected to extra checks.
鈥淭he technique aims to improve the efficiency of security checks and includes both body checks and luggage screening when large numbers of passengers enter the station,鈥 he told an urban transportation forum in Beijing on Tuesday.
The Beijing subway in May said it had started 鈥渄educting credit points鈥 from passengers who eat in railway carriages.
The city鈥檚 subway system currently handles over 12 million trips on a work day and the number is expected to increase to 17 million trips by 2022.
Facial recognition is gaining traction across China, where it is being used for everything from supermarket checkouts to surveillance.
The Universal Studios amusement park under construction in Beijing recently said that it will admit visitors without a ticket 鈥 thanks to cameras that will scan their faces to determine if they had paid for entry.
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