Felix Morsbach

And which sparked a lot of interest in trying to propose alternative sensing technologies.

Like, do we really need to have video cameras?

Or would there also, for example, be a thermal imaging camera?

Would that be sufficient?

That was the solution that was proposed a lot here in Karlsruhe, for example.

Exactly.

This is the kind of reasoning that is behind that idea.

And you can make the same argument with a lot of different other centers.

For example, you think about autonomous driving.

A lot of people talk about LiDAR sensors, which is like a super fancy, cool new technology, which is very nice.

But obviously, it's different to video cameras.

So we expect that we cannot identify people with that.

But if you think about what you actually need to identify someone, for example, you don't really need to see their faces.

And I think you all know examples where you identified or recognized someone in public where you didn't really see their face.

Imagine walking through the city and you see someone walking in front of you, like 100 meters in front of you or something.

And you kind of know the person.

You don't really know.

You cannot see the face, but you know who that is.

It might be an old friend or a colleague or someone.

But without knowing the face, without seeing the face, you see the way that he walks or the way that what his posture is, the physique of his body.