A criminal has been caught in a Chinese tourist town that has installed Baidu-made face-recognition cameras in all its hotels. Hebei fugitive Lao Lee had fled with his family to Wuzhen, but just after he entered the area, he was recognized by the face recognition monitoring.Wuzhen, a historic water town, has metamorphosed into the so-called “Internet Town” after becoming the permanent venue for the World Internet Conference (WIC) in December 2015. It has over 500 surveillance points throughout the town.”As the permanent venue for WIC, security is especially important for the town. As such we have expanded the range and density of video surveillance, enhanced its network and tightened its management,” a local cop told China News.Baidu's face-recognition software uses neural networks – a technique inspired by neurons in the brain that helps to recognise complex patterns. The company has trained the software on huge data sets that together total more than 1 billion images of people's faces and says that the system has an accuracy of 99.8 per cent, although this was achieved by examining still images rather than people walking up to a camera.The software also detects facial movements, so can't be fooled by someone holding up a still image of another person's face.The system is first being used to track the 5000 people per day staying in hotels in Wuzhen, who make up around 15 to 20 per cent of the town's total visitors. Baidu is already using the software for employee entry at its Beijing headquarters, but this is the first time it will be rolled out at such a scale.

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