Chinese company SenseTime has only been around for four years, but it is already one of the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence and machine vision. The company’s technology is impacting not only China but other countries. Here are a few of the amazing ways SenseTime uses artificial intelligence and machine vision.

1. Meet The World’s
Most Valuable
China’s SenseTime
AI Startup:

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In just four years, SenseTime went from being an academic project to become the
world's most valuable artificial intelligence (AI) company with a current valuation of $4.5
billion. Based in China, the company has a portfolio of 700 clients and partners,
including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Qualcomm, Honda, Alibaba,
Weibo, and more. They use their proprietary artificial intelligence and machine vision
technology to drive its success and "redefine human life as we know it." With the
number of core technologies, products, and services SenseTime offers, it’s hard to
believe it’s such a young company. Here are just a few ways SenseTime uses artificial
intelligence to “power the future.”
Meet The World's Most Valuable AI Startup:
China's SenseTime

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SenseTime developed several AI technologies including face, image, object and text
recognition; medical image and video analysis; remote sensing; and autonomous driving
systems. These AI technologies have been deployed in a variety of industries from healthcare
to finance, online entertainment to education, retail to security, smart cities to smartphones,
and more. They also created a deep learning platform. SenseTime is now the largest algorithm
provider in China, as well as the fifth largest AI platform. Along with other tech titans,
SenseTime is working with the Chinese government on Made in China 2025, an initiative to
make the country economically autonomous.
One of the reasons SenseTime has been able to grow so successful so quickly is that it has
government support and direct access to China’s vast databases regarding its 1.4 billion
residents. The more data algorithms are given, the better they become. And, with plans
to triple its revenue to $300 million in the coming year by putting its technology as the
foundation of image recognition everywhere, there doesn’t seem to be any signs of this
growth slowing.
SenseTime’s Core Technologies

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Conventional wisdom in the AI community is that while Europe and the United States might
be better at developing AI breakthroughs, China uses and improves AI thanks to the data
generated by its enormous population. This had led to some concern about an “AI arms race”
and how to manage ethics and privacy considerations among governments and cultures that
see these issues very differently. In one example, there are concerns that algorithms using
facial recognition technology are being used for racial profiling and to track the actions of a
Muslim minority group in China. This is something that human rights groups are watching
very closely.
SenseTime’s Core Technologies

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Since we’re talking about a Chinese company with facial recognition technology (called
DeepID), you won’t be surprised that a core focus for SenseTime is security. You get a sense
for what’s behind the screen when you visit the company’s Beijing office lobby and see
employees gain access after a camera scans their face and checks it against company records.
There’s also a panel at the entrance with a built-in camera that can analyse your face and even
assign an “attractiveness rating.”
In terms of security, several police departments use SenseTime’s SenseTotem and SenseFace
systems to analyse video footage to catch criminals. In addition to providing an additional
layer of security for drivers and passengers of ride-hailing apps, its technology can sense the
driver’s motions and can identify if they might be falling asleep behind the wheel or not
looking at the road for an unsafe time period. SenseTime can impact public safety in another
way by tracking car plates, support traffic management, and to recognise when there is a
traffic incident and alert authorities.
Applications of SenseTime Technologies

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Meitu, makers of a selfie app that’s very popular in China, uses SenseTime tech to allow users
to modify their appearance to make selfies more attractive or funny. Similar types of
modifications can be done through smartphone cameras and live-streaming apps—which
means you may never know what’s “real” when watching a live stream.
When SenseTime opened a smart health lab in the United States in the state of New Jersey, it
marked the company's foray into using AI in healthcare for diagnosis and medical treatment.
Through the company's SenseCare Smart Health Platform, medical professionals get the
support of artificial intelligence to review diagnostic information, plan surgeries, and follow-
up management.
In addition to an agreement with Japanese car manufacturer Honda to propel autonomous
driving technology, SenseTime opened up a self-driving research facility in Japan. The goal is
to have driverless passenger cars on the country’s public roads by the 2020 Olympics. The
company is actively exploring new technologies to revolutionize travel—on the ground and in
the air.
Applications of SenseTime Technologies

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In another partnership, SenseTime joined forces with G3 Global in Malaysiato collaborate on
AI projects and solutions, build a $1 billion AI park and to forge other strategic partnerships to
build up the AI industry in the country.
If the last four years are any indication, SenseTime will be one to watch as they develop new
products, services, partnerships, and ventures using artificial intelligence and machine vision.
Applications of SenseTime Technologies

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Bernard Marr is an internationally best-selling author, popular keynote speaker, futurist, and a
strategic business & technology advisor to governments and companies. He helps
organisations improve their business performance, use data more intelligently, and
understand the implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data,
blockchains, and the Internet of Things.
LinkedIn has ranked Bernard as one of the world’s top 5 business influencers. He is a frequent
contributor to the World Economic Forum and writes a regular column for Forbes. Every day
Bernard actively engages his 1.5 million social media followers and shares content that
reaches millions of readers.
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