Qatar World Cup deploys 22000 cameras to analyze fans' expressions.
CTOnews.com, November 14 (Xinhua) the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be held from November 20 to December 18, which will be the first World Cup in the history of the Arab world and the Middle East, as well as the World Cup with the highest content of artificial intelligence claimed by the organizers.
With more than 1.2 million fans expected to watch the World Cup in the country, Qatar has established a technology centre, where more than 1.2 million technicians will work around the clock from the Aspire command and control centre, closely monitoring the footage of 22000 security cameras scattered across all eight World Cup stadiums, using artificial intelligence to analyze spectators, check crowd flow and even control the temperature of the stadium. In addition, it can send instructions to security personnel at the scene in order to quickly stop any disturbances in the field.
CTOnews.com learned that the technology center also deployed AI facial recognition system, local organizers said that their artificial intelligence technology is very advanced, can analyze facial expressions to determine whether the audience is angry, or even find a lost child in the crowd, AI can also pick out smokers.
In addition, the artificial intelligence of the command center can calculate the number of fans in an area of the stadium and calculate whether the number of fans exceeds the planned capacity.
With regard to privacy concerns, relevant sources said that the storage period of all the content captured by more than 20,000 cameras does not exceed 120 days.
