How AI is used in the real world ④ -Image recognition (2) (Image Recognition)

At the beginning

Last time, we have seen examples of utilization of image recognition at stores, but this time we will introduce the efforts of transportation, airports, parking lots, etc. and the entire area of the region.Since the use of video utilization of modern knowledge, we also introduce videos produced by vendors.By all means, please check the video how far it is realized.

Image recognition in transportation

1.Electric train

For ticket generations like me, even the automatic ticket gate of the station is a dream -like product, but the further evolved "face pass ticket gate" has begun.It is still in China, and around 2019, Shenzhen, Chengdai, Taiwan, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Naneshu, Kunming, Kunming, Saiyasu, Harpin, and Fukushu have been introduced one after another in subway subway subways.Please see the video of the Chengdu Subway in Sichuan Province about how to register your face with your smartphone and authenticate your face path.

Many people, like me, are satisfied with the touch of mobile Suica, but if China does it, Japan may not be able to do it.Japan is still in the future, but we will introduce the demonstration experiment conducted by the subway in Osaka and JR East.A few years later, will anyone see a scene that passes through the Swiss ticket gate without taking out a smartphone?

・Osaka Metro自動改札は関西の私鉄がいち早く導入し、関東やJRはだいぶ遅れた感がありました。顔認証改札も同じように、まず関西私鉄がチャレンジしています。Osaka Metroは2019年12月から4つの駅で社員を対象にした顔認証によるチケットレス改札の実証実験を行っています。仕組み自体は単純で、①事前に顔写真を登録しておき、②駅の改札で顔認証をしてリアルタイムに照合するというものです(図1)。

Figure 1: Face authentication ticket gate

OSAKA METRO "Metro News Vol.Please see the video of "39".If you look at this, you can authenticate even if you wear a mask, and you can see that you are passing through the ticket gate smoothly with a continuous face pass.It is said that one is aimed at installing one at the ticket gate of all stations in 2024.

・JR東海JR東海は、2021年11月から2022年1月まで品川駅と名古屋駅の一部改札機で社員を対象とした顔認証改札の実証実験を行っています。

Since July 2021, JR East has introduced a new crime prevention system that detects the subject registered in the database in a camera image in advance as a countermeasure against the Tokyo Olympics.The subjects were "those who committed serious crimes in JR East facilities", "suspects in nomination", and "suspicious behavior".

However, on September 21, 2021, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that "crime prevention measures are being implemented to detect outlawers from prisons in the station," and it has become a big topic, and suspects and suspicious people will continue to detect.However, the detection of the prisoner (source) was stopped as "not yet obtained a social consensus."

Face authentication has been discussing privacy protection not only in the ticket gate, but also everywhere, and it is difficult to find a border depending on the country and companies.

2.Bus (face authentication ride and autonomous driving)

・山万ユーカリが丘線とコミュニティバス千葉県佐倉市のユーカリが丘ニュータウンの都市開発を行っている山万株式会社は、パナソニック社、ジョルダン社と一緒に新交通システム「山万ユーカリが丘線」とコミュニティバスの顔認証乗車実証実験を行っています。

The bus has been carried out on the bus since May 2021, and in September of the same year, the Face Acting has been introduced at all six ticket gates on the Yama Gigaoka Line.It seems that the population of New Town "Eucalyptus Hill" is 18,000, but it seems useful if it is introduced by all stations and buses.I want to support not only major companies like JR but also their independent attitudes.

・茨城県つくば市のバス乗車スマートシティ構想を掲げるつくば市は産学官連携のもとで、2020年2月にバスの顔認証乗車の実証実験を行っています。こちらは、スマホを使った顔認証です。スマホなら安価なので多くのバスに配置しやすく、認証速度や精度が高まれば全国に展開しやすいでしょう。こちらも実証実験の動画をご覧ください。

・兵庫県三田市と群馬県前橋市の自動運転バス三田市のウッディタウン地区を巡回する約6kmの神姫バス路線でも2020年7月20日から約1ヶ月間自動運転バスの実証実験が行われています。また、2021年2月には群馬県前橋市でも同じように自動運転バスの実証実験を行っています。これらの取り組みの目玉は自動運転ですが、乗車の際にタブレット端末の顔認証を使っています。

The communication speed is very important because the face pass using a smartphone or tablet is referred to with the database on the cloud.For this reason, the line is basically 5g, and the spread to the whole country is also a balance with the spread of 5 g.

3.airport

Although it is far from the plane due to the corona evil, the full -scale operation of Face Express by face authentication at Haneda Airport and Narita Airport in July 2021 has started.As shown in Fig. 2, read the passport information with the automatic check -in machine and register the face information, and then leave the baggage, the security checkpoint, and the boarding gate with face authentication (without presenting a passport or boarding pass.) You can pass.

Figure 2: Face Express [Source] From Japan Airlines website

It is amazing that all face passes are not required in advance or presenting a passport.In a long line waiting to confront a strict security inspector, there is a feeling of different world from the generation who was thrilled for some reason.

4.ship

Face authentication has begun to be used for boarding large cruise ships.It is a mechanism to take a face with a camera when boarding, and check with the face photo registered in advance to verify the identity.Since the trouble of checking tickets and identification when boarding, the waiting time for boarding is eliminated and the staff can save labor.

The whole area face authentication

Provide a facial authentication (face path) service throughout the region and call customers.Such new developments are being developed in sightseeing spots.

・南紀白浜のIoTおもてなしサービス実証NECと南紀白浜エアポート社は2019年1月から「IoTおもてなしサービス実証」を行っています。キーワードは顔認証です。飛行機やバス、ホテルなど個別に顔認証サービスを導入するのではなく、以下に示すようにエリア全体を顔パスで過ごせるという壮大な発想です。

1. 出発する羽田空港のJALのショップ「BLUE SKY」で顔認証決済
2. 南紀白浜空港ではサイネージがウェルカムメッセージを表示
3. 観光案内所でレンタカーや現地ツアーなどの顔認証決済
4. ホテルのチェックイン、顔認証ドア解錠、フロントで顔認証決済
5. 南紀白浜の各店舗、飲食店、観光施設での顔認証決済

What I personally expect is the hotel's face certificate door.This eliminates the worries of who will bring the key when you go to the public bath, and you don't have to worry about being stolen in the bathroom.

・富山市の顔認証システム社会実験富山市でも2020年10月から2022年3月までの予定で実証実験を行っています。取り組みの主体は顔認証決済で、観光施設やホテル、飲食店、お土産店などで顔認証決済ができるようになっています。

・静岡県「海の湖」顔認証決済実証実験浜名湖エリアでも2021年3月に実証実験が行われました。自分のスマホを使って顔情報やクレジットカード情報を登録する方式で、宿泊施設や飲食店、観光施設のレジに置いてあるタブレット端末で顔認証決済を行います。

・石垣島の実証実験石垣島でも空港や市内で「顔認証を活用したおもてなしサービス実証実験」を2021年11月から2022年1月にかけて実施しています。こちらは割引が主体で、新石垣空港到着ロビーで顔情報を登録して「あんしん島プレミアムパスポート」を受け取ると、観光施設やお店で顔認証して割引サービスの特典があります。

・その他この他にも、顔認証決済やチケットレスの実証実験はさまざまなところで行われています。下記にいくつか紹介しますが、続々増えている状況です。数年後にはQRコード決済の時代から顔認証決済の時代に変わっているかも知れません。