Beijing’s New Airport to Showcase Latest Facial Recognition Technology

July 18, 2018

Beijing’s new US$12 billion airport, which is designed to handle up to 100 million passengers a year at full capacity, will feature cutting-edge surveillance technology to ease bottlenecks in security and immigration screening.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Yitu is preparing a bid to provide its facial recognition technology to the airport, while its close rival SenseTime Group is also expected to compete for the contract.

Read more: https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2155606/beijings-new-zaha-hadid-designed-airport-showcase-latest-facial-recognition