Preview: Is it really reliable to rely solely on “face recognition” for banking services?

The saying “You can obviously make a living with your face” is no longer just an internet joke. With the popularization of facial recognition technology, not only can you pay for food, drink, and entertainment by “swiping your face”, but now even banking transactions can be done by “swiping your face”.

In the past two years, domestic small and medium-sized banks and local branches of the Big Four banks have gradually used facial recognition technology in their daily business. A few days ago, the Agricultural Bank of China, one of the Big Four banks, was the first to apply facial recognition technology nationwide.

However, is it really reliable to rely solely on "face scanning" for banking services? This open class specially invited Dr. Zhou Xi, the founder of CloudWalk Technology and an authority in the field of image recognition, to answer questions and solve problems. Currently, CloudWalk Technology is the largest supplier of facial recognition technology in the banking industry. CloudWalk Technology products are used by the Agricultural Bank of China, China Construction Bank, many branches of Bank of China, and dozens of small and medium-sized banks.

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Guest introduction:

Zhou Xi, founder of CloudWalk Technology, is a member of the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a doctoral supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is currently the deputy director of the Information Institute of Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the director of the Intelligent Multimedia Technology Research Center. He has published more than 60 articles in top international conferences and magazines, which have been cited thousands of times.

He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at USTC, majoring in pattern recognition, and then went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States to conduct his doctoral and postdoctoral research under the guidance of Tomas S. Huang, a member of four academies (the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan), the "father of computer vision," to conduct research in computer vision.

During his time in the United States, Zhou Xi worked and studied at IBM TJ Watson Research Institute, Microsoft Seattle Headquarters Research Institute, and NEC California Research Institute.

From 2006 to 2011, Zhou Xi and his team defeated famous research institutions such as MIT, University of Tokyo, IBM, and Sony six times, and won the world intelligent recognition competitions such as PASCAL VOC and IMAGENET. This year, Zhou Xi led the core team of CloudWalk Technology to win the Microsoft Image Recognition Challenge.

At the end of 2011, with the great attention of the Chongqing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhou Xi became a member of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was invited to return to China to co-found the Intelligent Multimedia Center of the Chongqing Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the National University of Singapore and UIUC. At the Chongqing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhou Xi led the team to develop a core face recognition algorithm with independent intellectual property rights and internationally leading key indicators.

In 2013, we defeated other teams of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in internal tests and, as the only facial recognition team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, participated in the strategic leading technology Class A project - Xinjiang security control.

In 2015, Zhou Xi founded CloudWalk Technology with the support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, PCI Technology, and Jieao Capital. He chose facial recognition as the starting point to fully industrialize the high-tech within the institute. The financing amount was RMB 60 million in the angel round and several hundred million in the A round (undisclosed).

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Event Details:

Topic: Is it really reliable to rely solely on “face recognition” for banking services?

Guest: Zhou Xi (President of CloudWalk Technology, Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD Supervisor)

Time: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 3 p.m.

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