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Chinese tech firm Cheetah Mobile has said it plans to continue to develop artificial intelligence technology.
Last week, Beijing Orion Star Technology, owned by Cheetah, won first place in an online competition organized by Microsoft to recognize a million celebrities in the real world.
Founded in September last year, Beijing Orion Star won first place in the external data support category. Competitors included teams from Singapore and the United States.
Cheetah Mobile was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014.
Cheetah Mobile headquarters.
"We used algorithms to discern interfering data and designed special computing models to improve efficiency," the company said in a statement.
Its facial recognition technology has been used to screen images on the company's live-streaming portal, Live.me. The technology is used to classify users by gender, age and race.
Live.me.
Over 200,000 hours of live-streamed content is generated on the platform per day, and facial recognition is used to identify unhealthy content in the videos, the company said.
Beijing Orion Star is also wading into voice recognition. It has used its technology on smart loudspeaker boxes developed by phone-maker Xiaomi.
"The opportunities of deep learning are not simply about technology itself, but more about application in real life. Artificial intelligence will be used in wide application areas in the industrial world, and this is the focus of our technology research," said Fu Sheng, company CEO.
Cheetah Mobile CEO Fu Sheng in front of New York Stock Exchange.
According to an industry report, starting from 2012, Chinese facial recognition patents have caught up with those in the United States. Many Chinese tech firms have been honing their edge in the industry.
By May, patents applications in facial recognition had reached 6,432 in China. In 2016 alone, there were 1,755 applications.
Cheetah Mobile says 600 million people use its apps worldwide and 80 percent of the users are from overseas.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
