Street video cameras in St. Petersburg will be equipped with an ethnic recognition system to monitor gatherings of migrants. This was announced by the head of the Committee on Interethnic Relations and Implementation of Migration Policy, Oleg Kapitanov.
In 2025, 8,000 cameras will be installed in the city that can recognize people's nationality. According to Kapitanov, the Committee on Informatization and Communications has already signed a contract for the purchase of the necessary license.
The "Safe City" has developed a mechanism for recognizing the ethnicity of individuals with automated generation of statistical reports.
He also noted that the "Safe City" system will be used to combat migration enclaves and to take timely preventive measures to prevent social tension in the region.
Currently, the number of surveillance cameras in St. Petersburg has reached 102,000. Of these, more than 48,000 are installed at the entrances to apartment buildings, 33,000 monitor places of mass gatherings, and about 6,500 are located at social infrastructure facilities.
Earlier, a group of scientists from Russia and Uzbekistan created a neural network that can automatically recognize street scenes of violence in video recordings from surveillance cameras. The development is designed to improve safety in populated areas and can be successfully integrated into the "Smart City" system.
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