Forbes: the company that provides Wi-Fi in the metro wants to recognize emotions in transport

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March 6, 2024

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Maxima Group of Companies, which develops public Wi-Fi networks in transport in Moscow and St. Petersburg, bought two startups developing an industrial platform for recognizing and processing photo and video images based on computer vision technologies. We are talking about iPavlov and “AI systems”.

According to Forbes, a patent was issued for “AI systems” in December last year for the “Vzor” human identification system. The patent description states that this program is intended for “analysis of passenger traffic in the subway.” The technology allows you to find faces in a general video stream, track a person from camera to camera, determine gender and age, as well as recognize them and find them in databases.

iPavlov CEO Laurent Hakobyan told the publication that iPavlov and AI Systems are part of the same group of companies. According to him, “Vzor” is a system developed for critical information infrastructure (CII) objects.

“Vzor” is just one of the subsystems of the EYE Platform, an industrial platform for recognition and processing of photo and video images based on machine vision technologies, and “Vzor” is now “piloted at several transport facilities,” says Akopyan. This system preprocesses the video stream using various parameters and “can determine a person’s mood and distinguish an upset person from an aggressive one,” he explains.

The technology also allows you to predictively respond to possible incidents, Hakobyan continues:

“The system acts proactively: when it receives an alarm (for example, a fire), it sends a signal to the security console. If there is no response to it, the system sends a signal further down the chain of command.”

According to HFLabs technical director Nikita Nazarov, iPavlov’s development partly overlaps with the facial recognition solution from VisionLabs, which is already used in the Moscow metro, including for FacePay. “In essence, both there and there use the same technologies. This may lead to increased competition between the two players. However, there is also a likely scenario in which Maxima will use Vzor in other segments,” the expert admits.

For example, with the help of such technology it is possible to control passenger flow, calculating the most popular routes of people, to understand exactly how they choose paths from point A to point B, says Kirill Ladygin, a representative of the developer of technologies and solutions in the field of speech processing and analysis of unstructured data 3iTech. The development can be used to search for lost or wanted people, and for law enforcement purposes - to track entire groups of people moving from one point to another, but using completely different vehicles, he concludes.