New AI can search people based on height, gender, clothing in surveillance videos

Take full advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers are using it in various creative ways. This time, a team has used AI to distinguish people in surveillance videos by their height, gender, and clothing color.

A team of AI researchers from India have developed a tool similar to a search engine able to find people in a video. The tool is able to search for people in surveillance footage by height, clothing color and gender.

The tool was created with the help of deep learning to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) how to recognize certain human features, known as soft biometrics, via computer vision, wrote The Next Web.

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In simpler words, a person gives a video to the AI and can tell the AI specific details about the person they are looking for and it’ll search it for them. For instance, upon requesting for ‘females wearing red shirts that are 153cm tall’, the AI will narrow down people meeting the criteria from the video.

Publishing their research in arXiv, researchers claimed that the algorithm ‘correctly recovers 28 persons out of 41 in a very challenging dataset with soft biometric attributes’. The team believes that with further development, the system can become more robust and an accurate search tool.

Researchers believe that this early work could possibly show a lot of potential like helping people look for specific individuals in certain surveillance footages, such as looking for a missing individual or tracking suspected criminals.