SenseTime innovates and uses AI algorithms to build a new infrastructure "power plant"

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic this year, new infrastructure construction (hereinafter referred to as "new infrastructure") has once again become a hot topic and is considered to be a new engine for China's future economic growth. On April 20, the National Development and Reform Commission clearly defined the scope of "new infrastructure", including information infrastructure, integrated infrastructure, and innovative infrastructure, and all three aspects are closely related to scientific and technological innovation. Among them, artificial intelligence, as a new technological infrastructure in the information infrastructure sector, is even more hailed as the "new electricity" in the digital economy era because of its ability to innovate and reshape traditional industries.

In the manufacturing and delivery process of "new electricity", as the first "intelligent vision" national new generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform designated by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, SenseTime plays the role of an original AI algorithm "power plant". At present, SenseTime has more than 20 supercomputer clusters across the country, trained more than 3,000 different types of algorithm models, and successfully helped more than 1,000 partners to significantly improve efficiency. In the practice of industrial layout, SenseTime takes the three missions of good governance, benefiting the people, and promoting business as the hub, deeply empowers artificial intelligence technology to industries and scenarios, and promotes the intelligent upgrade of industries.                                               

Improving the effectiveness of urban management

In the process of helping comprehensive urban governance move from "smart governance" to "good governance", SenseTime has built a multi-scenario, one-stop AI city solution based on the city-level open visual platform city scene algorithm warehouse, starting from the discovery, filing, dispatch, disposal, verification, and case closure, integrating AI into the city governance business process to improve urban management efficiency. In a first-tier city in China where this solution has been deployed, when the system finds a pile of construction waste somewhere in the city and the retention time exceeds 1 hour, the system will automatically alarm and generate a case. Subsequently, according to the rules for automated case dispatch, it will be automatically dispatched to the relevant disposal personnel nearby. The disposal personnel can arrive at the scene to clean up the construction waste, upload the disposal results to the system, and close the case.

Relying on SenseTime's artificial intelligence technology, the system can also automatically identify various illegal and irregular behaviors in the city, such as illegal business operations on the street, illegal parking of motor vehicles/non-motor vehicles, illegal advertising, uncleaned urban garbage, road spillage, urban fireworks, street drying, illegal construction, road waterlogging, etc.

Make life experience smarter

Smart transportation is a focal topic under the "new infrastructure" and is closely related to everyone's life. In the field of rail transit, SenseTime has launched the "SenseMeteor Smart Rail Transit Platform", which can realize face-code mutual access in the rail transit field, that is, passengers can choose to enter and exit the station by face scanning or QR code. This product is based on SenseTime's original deep learning algorithm and is specially optimized for rail transit scenarios to ensure high accuracy. With a face database of one million people, the misrecognition rate is less than one in a million.

At present, the product has been implemented in more than 150 subway stations in many cities with a population of tens of millions across the country, including the entire lines of Zhengzhou Metro Lines 1 and 14, the entire lines of Xi'an Metro Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4, and 27 stations in Harbin Metro. When passengers enter the station through the dedicated gate channel, the system can automatically complete face recognition and verification. The application of this function can solve some practical difficulties of passengers, such as no change, dead mobile phone, forgetting to bring tickets, carrying luggage, holding children, making phone calls, etc. At the same time, it also brings convenience to the operation and management of the subway. Its contactless passage mode can avoid passengers staying and crowding in front of the gate, making subway travel safer and more efficient.

Promote the intelligent upgrading of industries

As various places have gradually entered the stage of resuming work and production, the cultural tourism industry has also encountered new challenges when reopening to the public. For example, in museums with relatively closed spaces and dense crowds, using traditional handheld devices to screen people's temperatures faces many practical difficulties. It consumes manpower, has low screening efficiency, and cannot report abnormal body temperatures to the CDC in the first place.

In response to this, SenseTime and its partners have jointly developed a "Museum AI Epidemic Prevention System" with integrated management of "cloud + edge + end". The system is based on SenseTime's modular AI-enabled product, the Nebula Intelligent Temperature Measurement and Screening System, which can accurately concentrate non-contact temperature measurement on the forehead through AI algorithms to achieve high-precision temperature detection and screening. At present, with the support of the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the four major museums, Shaanxi History Museum, Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum, Xi'an Beilin Museum, and Han Jingdi Yangling Museum, have all applied this system and connected information to realize the "one network" of public health safety and epidemic prevention in museums. At the same time, in order to better realize infrastructure sharing and avoid repeated investment of social resources, this museum AI epidemic prevention system will be upgraded to a social public safety early warning system after the epidemic, promoting the dual protection of museum public health safety and public security management.

"New infrastructure" is an infrastructure system driven by technological innovation that provides services such as digital transformation, intelligent upgrading, and integrated innovation. In the current context of comprehensively promoting the resumption of work and production, industrial transformation, and intelligent upgrading, artificial intelligence, as the core driving force of "new infrastructure", will inevitably play an increasingly important role in economic and industrial development. As a world-leading artificial intelligence platform company, SenseTime has always insisted on using leading artificial intelligence technology to bring innovation-driven development to more than 10 industries such as smartphones, Internet entertainment, automobiles, smart cities, education, medical care, retail, advertising, finance, and real estate. In the future, as an AI algorithm "power plant" in the digital economy era, SenseTime will also deliver a steady stream of electricity to thousands of households and continue to contribute to society.