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Monday 26 April 2021

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North Korean authorities claim to have used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop real-time license plate recognition technology. Given that the technology was developed to work within North Korea’s low-level technological environment, the new system looks set to be applied across a wide-range of spheres.

An academic paper entitled “A method of real-time license plate area recognition using deep neural networks” was published in a 2020 issue of the academic journal Gazette of Kim Il Sung University: Information Science, 66(4).

7 comments:

Ed P said...

As it only has to identify approximately one vehicle per minute in N Korea's impoverished backwater, it's not very impressive.
It would need to process one vehicle every two seconds per lane on major roads (but considerably fewer on the M25).

All governments are busy, busy, busy developing newer, faster and more accurate ways to monitor their populations - China's 'social contract' is ahead for all of us.

A K Haart said...

Ed - I think you are right - China is the model for all of us. Presented differently perhaps, but essentially much the same.

Scrobs. said...

I wonder if they could lend it to us here, in our village...

Only yesterday, a speeding white van ripped past one of the blue towers, only to slice off the front of a Fiat 500, and ruin a lovely old cast-iron fence by the pond!

Who's going to tell them they're useless? mr Biden?

A K Haart said...

Scrobs - Biden thinks international affairs are a matter of being nice to people in the expectation that they will be nice too. Such as offering his son a job.

MrMC said...

Now that would be a good idea for my assistant Mrs Chin: a social contract, has anyone got a format for such a thing ?
She seems to be acting under the clauses of a fairly antisocial contract these days, especially when we lost the cat on holiday in Norfolk last week and she was overcharged for fish and chips.

A K Haart said...

MrMC - that's the first time in my life that I've heard of someone losing their cat while on holiday in Norfolk. Maybe large areas of Norfolk look the same to a cat.

MrMC said...

The cottage smelt a bit of dog so she had a three day nervous breakdown, after scouring the nearby wood we found her in a pillowcase in the bedroom.
She is on intravenous catnip now.