Visualizing the distance between people with AI Technology development for grasping the degree of congestion One after another 14:54 on June 11
NEC has developed technology that allows you to check the distances between people from images captured by security cameras in stores. As a measure against the new coronavirus, development of technology to grasp the degree of crowding of people is continuing.
NEC has developed a technology that AI (artificial intelligence) analyzes images from security cameras in stores and streets in real time to confirm whether or not people are kept apart from each other without identifying individuals.
AI recognizes the person in the image and displays a blue circle within a radius of 1 m around each person.
When circles overlap, the color changes to red, indicating that people are approaching each other.
After that, by calculating the percentage of red circles in the image and showing the degree of crowding of people with a numerical value, it is said that the store can respond to customers by alerting them to congestion.
This software can also be used with cameras that have already been installed, and the company intends to put it into practical use as soon as possible at stations, airports, stores, etc. where people gather.
In the development of technology for grasping the degree of crowding of people, Sony has also developed an image sensor equipped with AI and is able to grasp the congestion situation etc. by incorporating it in the camera, and the technology development that can be connected to measures against the new coronavirus It is one after another.