Chinese school uses facial recognition to monitor student attention in class

A Chinese school has installed facial recognition technology to monitor how attentive students are in class. Every movement of pupils at Hangzhou Number 11 High School in eastern China is watched by three cameras positioned above the blackboard. The "smart classroom behaviour management system," or "smart eye", is the latest highly-intrusive surveillance equipment to be rolled out in China, where leaders have rushed to use the latest technology to monitor the wider population.
The system has been installed in one classroom, but will be deployed across the school by the summer, headmaster Ni Ziyuan said.

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The computer will pick up seven different emotions, including neutral, happy, sad, disappointed, angry, scared and surprised.

If it concludes that the student is distracted with other thoughts during the class, it will send a notification to the teacher to take action.
Many Chinese have grown accustomed to their privacy being infringed by the government and corporations, but people have been expressing horror about the new system on Chinese social media.
"If I was still at school, I would not be able to concentrate on anything but that watching eye!" said one comment on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
However Mr Ni, the headmaster, said that "smart eye" will help improve educational standards.
“It's the same as teachers having an assistant, and it can improve the quality of teaching," he said, according to the Hangzhou.com report.
"Some have said it can infringe the privacy of students, but it only records students’ movements, rather than filming activities in class.
"And those who focus on lectures will be marked with an A, while students who let their minds wander will be marked with a B."

The computer will pick up seven different emotions, including neutral, happy, sad, disappointed, angry, scared and surprised.

If it concludes that the student is distracted with other thoughts during the class, it will send a notification to the teacher to take action.
Many Chinese have grown accustomed to their privacy being infringed by the government and corporations, but people have been expressing horror about the new system on Chinese social media.
"If I was still at school, I would not be able to concentrate on anything but that watching eye!" said one comment on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
However Mr Ni, the headmaster, said that "smart eye" will help improve educational standards.
“It's the same as teachers having an assistant, and it can improve the quality of teaching," he said, according to the Hangzhou.com report.
"Some have said it can infringe the privacy of students, but it only records students’ movements, rather than filming activities in class.
"And those who focus on lectures will be marked with an A, while students who let their minds wander will be marked with a B."

 

The computer will pick up seven different emotions, including neutral, happy, sad, disappointed, angry, scared and surprised.

If it concludes that the student is distracted with other thoughts during the class, it will send a notification to the teacher to take action.
Many Chinese have grown accustomed to their privacy being infringed by the government and corporations, but people have been expressing horror about the new system on Chinese social media.
"If I was still at school, I would not be able to concentrate on anything but that watching eye!" said one comment on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
However Mr Ni, the headmaster, said that "smart eye" will help improve educational standards.
“It's the same as teachers having an assistant, and it can improve the quality of teaching," he said, according to the Hangzhou.com report.
"Some have said it can infringe the privacy of students, but it only records students’ movements, rather than filming activities in class.
"And those who focus on lectures will be marked with an A, while students who let their minds wander will be marked with a B."