Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/07/24
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—On July 17 Taipei police helped an octogenarian, who

(photo courtesy of the Songshan Precinct of the Taipei City Police Department)

got lost during his latest visit to his old residence, find his way home by leveraging a face detection and recognition system.

The Songshan Precinct of the Taipei City Police Department said in a news release on Tuesday that Zhonglun Police Station officers Shen Yu-wen (沈毓雯) and Chan Ze-hua (詹則華) were on patrol when they received a report at midnight on July 17 that an old man might have got lost as he had been standing in an alley on Section 3 of Bade Road in Songshan District for a considerable period of time.

The two police officers immediately responded to the report. When they got to where the elder was, they saw him standing at the entrance of an alley with a crutch and looking into the residences in the alley with helpless facial expression.     [FULL  STORY]