In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo, Huang Yongzhen, CEO of Watrix, demonstrates the use of his firm's gait recognition software at his company's offices in Beijing.

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: 'gait recognition' tech that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden.

Gait recognition itself isn't a new technology, as scientists in Japan, the UK and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency have all been researching it.

Biometric technology has contributed significantly to propelling civilisation forward, making possible a degree of accuracy rate in identification and authentication needed for society to rest its ...

Capturing a human’s gait on camera started in the 1970s for medical purposes. More recently, by analyzing how a person moves, police use gait recognition technology to, for example, identify a person ...

Facial recognition technology, and voice and gait identifiers, could be used without someone's knowledge. No respondents to the survey reported that their district is using voice or gait identifiers.

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden ...