novelraw Chapter 442 - 265: Portrait Recognition System 2.0
Chapter 442 - 265: Portrait Recognition System 2.0
On the other end of the phone, Li Xiang seemed to be patiently explaining the reason, but Li Zhongqing flatly refused him, saying, "Do you need to explain this? I don’t know how good the system is or how much it helps solve cases, but your idea is totally absurd right now. A research project takes years to start, and teams start with hundreds of people. What can you do with just a few broken guns?"
"Your primary task now is to fully solve the Yuncheng No. 1 case. When you want to do research, I will fully support you, even applying for a state-owned research fund for you. As long as you produce results, I can pull in as much funding as you need. But for now, just focus and close the case in hand."
Li Zhongqing knew well the tactic of offering a stick and then a sweet date to motivate people. He didn’t completely kill his idea, after all, Li Xiang had truly developed the skull digital restoration technology, which gained unanimous praise nationwide once launched.
And he, as the promoter of this project, was affirmed by the leaders in the department.
If Li Xiang is willing to make further contributions in the field of research, he will 100% support him, providing funds and people as needed, but with the premise that the Yuncheng No. 1 case is solved first.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiang knew immediately that Director Li misunderstood him, so he quickly explained, "I just want to optimize the facial recognition system, not redevelop a new system. It doesn’t need too much money or manpower, just a short borrow of your supercomputer from last time, and it’ll be done quickly."
Director Li was a bit skeptical and asked, "How soon?"
"I only need to borrow it for one week, and only use it at night, absolutely not affecting their normal daytime use."
Li Xiang quickly assured him.
"One week?"
"Yes, yes, yes."
After pondering for a moment, Li Zhongqing felt that a week is not too long. Even if this one week is wasted, it wouldn’t severely impact the Yuncheng No. 1 case, and since Li Xiang requested supercomputing time only at night, it wouldn’t interfere with other projects’ research tasks during the day. It could also effectively encourage Li Xiang’s enthusiasm, so it seemed feasible.
"Then it is settled, just one week’s time for you. If you can’t make it work, then focus on solving the No. 1 case at hand. If you really want to do research, everything is negotiable after you get back."
"It’s settled, just one week. Whether it succeeds or not, I’ll withdraw after a week."
"Alright, let me arrange it."
"Thank you, Director Li."
Li Zhongqing was also helpless. If it were anyone else but Li Xiang, he would have scolded them long ago.
Being half-hearted, the end result would be achieving nothing.
But Li Xiang couldn’t be judged by common sense.
After hanging up the phone, he called the director of the Shenwei Supercomputer Research Institute to inquire if they had any research tasks scheduled for the upcoming week at night.
After receiving a positive answer, he called back Li Xiang and granted him the permission to use the supercomputer.
"Director Li, always saying no with his mouth but acting quickly."
With supercomputer access granted to him, Li Xiang’s mouth slightly curled up, feeling very pleased.
With the help of the supercomputer, the optimization of the facial recognition system shouldn’t be a problem.
At night, everyone in the guidance group was off work, except for Li Xiang’s office, which was still brightly lit.
He needed to embed ’Xiao Mu’s’ intelligent core into the facial recognition system, and not just that, he also had to match their compatibility.
Once the compatibility was matched, a comprehensive optimization of the entire system would occur to fully unleash the power of the intelligent core.
And Li Xiang basically left this process to ’Xiao Mu,’ who managed the Shenwei supercomputer, to execute.
The powerful combination of the supercomputer and Artificial Intelligence could unleash a force far beyond the simplicity of 1+1=2.
Meanwhile, in the Shenwei Supercomputer Research Institute far away in the provincial capital, two on-duty engineers suddenly heard the familiar buzzing sound coming from the machine room.
"Laos, it’s happening again, it’s happening again."
"Shenwei is back to full load operation."
These two on-duty engineers were the same ones from last time, and upon hearing Shenwei Supercomputer’s buzzing sound, it was all too familiar to them.
Last time, it was the provincial department’s skull digital restoration research center using it, causing Shenwei Supercomputer to run at full capacity.
They conducted maintenance on the supercomputer for quite a long time afterward.
It hasn’t been long, but the familiar scene has appeared once more.
"This time, the provincial department directly applied for its use, but I’m sure it’s the same person from last time."
Typically, it’s very challenging for a regular research project to push Shenwei Supercomputer to full capacity.
What does 200P Flops of floating-point peak computation performance mean? It’s equivalent to 20 quintillion calculations per second. What kind of computational workload requires so many operations?
"Hurry, go turn on the air conditioning. Although it’s already cooling down, better safe than sorry. Don’t let Shenwei’s chips and motherboard burn out."
These two were very frustrated at this point, initially believing that after the skull digital restoration research center used it, no one would use it so violently again. But in just over a month, the same person returned again.
Watching the cooling fans whirling noisily, their hearts ached.
This Shenwei Supercomputer project cost over a billion, and if it breaks, the consequences would be disastrous.
Laos quickly ran to turn on all the air conditioners, trying his best to cool the machine down.
Meanwhile, far away in Yuncheng, Li Xiang naturally had no idea what was happening there.
He was sitting in front of his computer, optimizing the facial recognition system.
Or rather, he watched as ’Xiao Mu’ leveraged the supercomputer’s computing power to fully optimize the facial recognition system.
Li Xiang also successfully integrated the Artificial Intelligence core code into the facial recognition system.
This was akin to modifying most of the underlying code of the original facial recognition system, retaining only some of its identification algorithms, and performing optimization processing.
This process, if done by Li Xiang alone, would take until who knows when.
But with the support of Artificial Intelligence ’Xiao Mu’ and Shenwei Supercomputer, the efficiency of this endeavor skyrocketed.
In the blink of an eye, six days had passed.
During these days, Li Xiang was elusive by day and burned the midnight oil by night, and the guidance group rarely saw his presence.
Fortunately, during this time, Zhou Jian was leading the team in manually screening victims of the headless cases. With no leads, no one sought out Li Xiang, allowing him the leisure to focus on his work.
Zhou Jian didn’t know that during this time, Li Xiang had already started optimizing the facial recognition system.
That night, Li Xiang stretched and noticed his face had grown quite a bit of stubble, looking somewhat tired and haggard.
Staying up late can be very detrimental to health.
Disrupting the biological clock, even if you can catch some sleep during the day, it doesn’t compensate for the lack of sleep at night.
But fortunately, all this hard work is worth it.
Li Xiang looked at the facial recognition system in front of him, smiling satisfied.
The system, whether in icon appearance or software UI interface, looked exactly the same as the previous version of the facial recognition system.
He wasn’t inclined to modify the aesthetics due to lack of energy and time.
This made his facial recognition system look indistinguishable from the original one.
But the underlying code had undergone a drastic transformation; it was no longer a simple version upgrade but a version evolution, directly from Facial Recognition System 1.0 to 2.0, from a feature phone to a smartphone.
"Let’s go to Zhou Jian to test the software’s effectiveness."
Just as Li Xiang was about to get up, he glanced out the window, seeing the darkness outside. A glance at the time revealed it was only 4 a.m.
"It’s still early, better catch some sleep first, ah~"
Yawning again, Li Xiang decided to rest his head on the desk for a nap and wait until everyone clocked in to try the software on him.