China is taking its Big Brother approach to government one step further with plans to use CCTV cameras and artificial intelligence to follow people across the country. China is taking its Big Brother approach to government one step further with plans to use CCTV cameras and artificial intelligence to follow people across the country.
The plan from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) would use the nation's network of surveillance to find wanted civilians.
Known as EnsembleNet, the programme was trained using 2,000 clips from CCTV footage and is 90 per cent accurate, the firm claims.
Body shapes and discernible features are spotted, remembered and scanned for in other footage in the database.
The programme is sophisticated enough to spot a person in disguise 'regardless of the pose or gait' - and even if some of the features appear different.
The system was used to identify a man with a card attached to his front even when the only other footage of him was when his back was turned to the camera.
