2018-08-29 08:00
In the field of artificial intelligence innovation and entrepreneurship, along with some leading institutions in the natural language processing, face recognition, speech recognition and other pure AI technology innovation products and solutions gradually mature, AI penetrates into the subdivided industry field, with "AI+ "The pattern of packaging products or services that change business practices in different areas has become a consensus across the industry." In the "AI+ security inspection" segment, Yiou interviewed Baoxun Xie, founder and CEO of Visight Technology, which focuses on product development in this field, to further explain the development trend of artificial intelligence in this field.
The overall development of artificial intelligence technology in the security security inspection field is very good, but AI has begun to enter the stage of in-depth development and application. This stage needs to be closely integrated with specific industries, understand the industry, and solve the pain points in the industry is the key to AI. Security is a In a typical traditional industry, AI is needed to help transform the direction. "This is the statement made by the founder and CEO of Visight Technology, Baoxun Xie, in accepting the transformation of the company in an interview with the billion-dollar reporter. Rationality is not lacking in insight.
When talking about the development direction of the company, Mr Baoxun Xie revealed that the follow-up technology research and development direction will focus on the field of AI security inspection based on security image recognition, and to solve the problem of different scenes through security image recognition products based on artificial intelligence technology, continue to infiltrate in the industry and promote innovation and development of the security inspection industry.
What is the overall development of this track which Visight technology is now focusing on? What are the existing development paths? What problems will be encountered during the development process? The answers will be explained as followings step by step.
At the early stage, the technology and products of the Visight technology started from the face recognition technology, but with more business in the security field, Mr Baoxun Xie found that the application prospect of AI in the security market is also huge, and it is closely related to many industries, considering The company's long-term development, Visight Technology decided to switch the track. Mr Baoxun Xie analyzed: “At present, the intelligence of the domestic security inspection field is still in its infancy. We just saw this and decided to switch from hot face recognition to all in security. We hope to be an innovator in the security field, and explores a feasible way to solve the pain points in the security inspection industry and contribute to the national artificial intelligence strategy.”
After the transformation, Visight Technology is focusing on the field of artificial intelligence security inspection. The company's current main product is an artificial intelligence product used to assist security personnel to view security images, identify and alarm contraband items——X-iscb
According to the working principle of the security inspection machine, the articles are scanned by rays when they are sent to the security inspection machine through the conveyor. The security device analyzes the imaging according to the change of the scanning ray through different substances, and mark different colors to the materials according to different compositions and finally presents them to the display screen.The security personnel then identify the image according to the display condition to identify whether the scanned article contains contraband. In this process, before the security personnel identify whether the prohibited items are included in the scanned object, they often need to remember a large number of contraband shapes and the color displayed after being scanned in advance, and also need to analyze whether the scanned object contains contraband fast in the limited time of on-site security inspection. The analysis determines This is a dull and extremely painstaking work.
With the ability of deep learning, the X-iscb produced by Visight Technology has trained the image data of various shapes and colors of different kinds of contraband in the scanning state of the security inspection machine, and improves the recognition rate of contraband through continuous iterative learning., in turn, assists or even partially replaces the function of security personnel identification.
Mr Baoxun Xie said that in the field of traditional security inspection, there are currently two problems that are more difficult. The first is the security check speed. For security reasons, there are strict and detailed security checks in specific scenarios such as airports. These checks are time-consuming and labor-intensive, affecting the speed and experience of boarding passengers. The second is the problem of the liquidity of security personnel. For the post of security inspectors, the flow of personnel is very large. The fundamental reason is that security inspections require higher security personnel and the work is more boring, but the wages of the posts are relatively low which lead to greater mobility of security personnel.
The development of technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence will firstly replace a large number of simple and repetitive workforces. To a certain extent, the position of security inspectors needs for new technologies. Mr Xie Baoxun said that "the current security efficiency and quality can not be improved, in the process of human security, the speed of people's response to contraband information is limited, far below the speed of the machine identification, which requires slower speed of the security inspection machine to transmit the track, and thus reduce the overall efficiency. At present, if the false detection rate of the X-iscb provided by the company is less than 3% in the actual application scenario, the detection rate of certain types of contraband is over 95%, which can assist the security personnel to quickly identify contraband and improve the efficiency of security personnel. Combined with techniques such as deep learning, the algorithm is continuously iteratively trained and learned, and when the accuracy reaches a certain level, it can even replace the security personnel to work independently in certain scenarios.
Security inspection is a vertical application area. Generally speaking, it is relatively closed. There are not many companies focusing on this field, but market demand exists. The market space in this segment can cultivate several startup companies which is just the reason why Visight technology choose this track.
At present, there exist two kinds of companies in the field of artificial intelligence security inspection, one kind of companies are security inspection machine manufacturers, and their products will gradually eliminate the existing non-intelligent security inspection machines on the market, which is different from other security inspection machine manufacturers. The other kind of companies are the companies with AI gene. Based on the technology of artificial intelligence, through the cooperation with security inspection machine manufacturers to open up data, develop the modular functional products to achieve intelligent transformation of existing security inspection work.
Since there are already a large number of traditional security inspection equipments on the market, the manufacturers who take the first route will face greater competition in the same industry, and when selling products, customers also have the concern of eliminating the original security inspection equipment when purchasing new products. Visight Technology is taking the second route. By providing a product that assists security personnel to realize the identification of contraband products, it can realize intelligent modification with different security inspection equipment, achieve intelligent transformation of existing products, and realize the purpose of collaborative development with existing security inspection equipment manufacturers.
In terms of the specific application scenarios, the products of Visight Technology have been implemented in the scenes including civil aviation airports, customs, subways, and logistics express delivery enterprises. According to the landing situation of different sub-segments, Mr Baoxun Xie analyzed: “Because of the different functions of different security inspection departments, different sub-scenarios have different requirements for products, in addition to basic control equipment, guns and ammunition, flammable and explosive, etc. For example, customs inspection may require the identification of items such as dental ore, electronic products, etc. The airport has special requirements for items such as lighters and lithium batteries that are not of concern to the subway security inspection. Therefore, for different application scenarios, there are many things that need to be done to develop algorithms that identify different kinds of items, especially for the accumulation of industry data.”
As the two scenes with the most demanding security inspections, the subway and the airport are the areas of focus for Visight Technology. In addition, since the state requested the security inspection of express parcels since 2015, it has also promoted the possibility of artificial intelligence landing in the field of express security inspection. According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics, the daily package volume in China has exceeded 100 million pieces per day in 2017. This data is growing at a rate of nearly 50% per year, and rapid security has become a key area of concern for Visight Technology.
The key to entrepreneurship in the field of artificial intelligence is to have the three elements of technology, data and industry awareness. In general, Visight Technology has realized the intelligent transformation of existing security inspection equipment and security inspection processes through artificial intelligence technology, avoiding the problem of direct competition with security inspection equipment manufacturers. At the same time, focus on scenes such as the subway, airport and logistics express delivery companies, continue to deepen the application scenarios, continue to accumulate industry data and understand users’ needs, and reflect these knowledges on smart security products. It is believed that with the continuous accumulation of data and the continuous enrichment of industry experience, Visight Technology will continue to deepen its moat in the field of identification of artificial intelligence, gradually strengthen its own competition barriers. Let us wait and see how it will develop.