The topic “face recognition in class” has become a hot search topic on Weibo, where the monitoring system will capture students’ sleep, mobile phone play and other small movements in class. “It’s so hard to be a student! In fact, classroom monitoring systems are not new in Asia, Delhi announced that all public schools will install cameras to monitor the status of students in class. The program was launched in July.
This semester, students at China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing are learning the importance of face.
Whether it is the door of the student dormitory, or the library, or the laboratory building, must pass the face recognition access control “brush face” to enter. According to the director of medicine books and information center, after that, it will also realize “brush face” to eat, “brush face” to borrow books.
The facial recognition system, which has been installed in two pilot classrooms of the university, can automatically identify students’ attendance and early departure. Therefore, for students of the University of Medicine, skipping classes and roommates’ helping to check in will become a thing of the past.
To make things even more frustrating for students, the system also monitors what they are listening to in class. Look up or down, whether you are playing with your mobile phone, whether you are dozing off with your eyes closed, all can not escape the “legal eye” of this facial recognition system.
According to introduction, if the effect of the pilot classroom is good, will carry out the whole school promotion.
Recently, the university of Medicine was also on the weibo hot search list for this “avant-garde” move. On one side, those who have already graduated are glad that they graduated early, while on the other side, students party members complain that they are too difficult.
Incidentally, The English name of China Pharmaceutical University is CPU, so there is a lot of spare computing power in processing these data.
Of course, campus surveillance is hardly news in India.
Delhi, India: All public schools must have cameras
Earlier this year, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in India introduced a student tracking system to monitor performance and keep statistics on all students.
VTU is just one of many campuses across India that have installed surveillance systems. In fact, all public schools in Delhi are already on the way to installing surveillance cameras.
On January 18, 2018, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Twitter that cameras will be installed in all public school classrooms in Delhi, NDTV reported on its website.
One of the first schools to let parents see their children in class
Arvind Kejriwal also said he and several government officials have checked and monitored the progress of the installation of the surveillance cameras. “It will make the system more transparent and accountable. It will keep kids safe.”
Manish Sisodia, Delhi’s education minister, agreed, saying the city’s project to install CCTV in classrooms “will prove to be a milestone in education for the entire world”. The system will also help the government investigate allegations of teacher misconduct or absenteeism, he added.
Indian universities: Parents can also check campus surveillance at any time
VTU is backed by a private company called BlueClumb Softech. In a notice to universities, the company said its virtual student monitoring system would help parents and teachers monitor students’ progress.
Parents will be able to check the monitoring on their mobile phones at any time and keep track of their children’s learning in real time.
The software also allows information to be stored in a cloud-based solution, so parents can also access their child’s academic archives.
The student guardian can log in to the system through the account and password to view the monitoring report. The system contains details about all students, such as academic reports, university course details, class schedules, course progress, academic progress, and other related resources.
So don’t try to hide your real grades or pretend that you haven’t taken any tests recently.
VTU officials say the system will ensure that students are not undervalued during their time at school, which could affect their chances of getting a job after graduation.
Eeg monitoring: red, yellow and blue shows concentration
In addition to image-based facial recognition, there are other ai “dark technologies” being experimented with when it comes to classroom monitoring.
BrainCo, a Boston-based brain-computer interface technology company, uses a non-invasive brain-computer to connect focus1, a verbal wearing device, to monitor students’ status in class.
They once carried out a pilot project in a primary school in China. After students put on Focus1, the color of the light on the headband can indicate different states of attention of students: blue means relaxed, yellow means focused, and red means very focused.
BrainCo’s headband uses so-called electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors to detect brain signals and uses AI algorithms to translate brain signals into levels of concentration in real time. According to the BrainCo website, data collected from headbands can be used to design focused training games to help students keep their brains in tip-top shape before class.
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If one day, such devices do enter the classroom, what will they look like?
Finally, the friendship reminds the students of China Pharmaceutical University, pay attention to protect their face, all accidentally changed, the system can not identify it can be difficult.
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