AIID camera search finds a missing man in Anyang in three hours

Anyang police used the AIID camera system to narrow the search for a missing man and found him within three hours of the report. They estimate that a manual search could have taken more than 10 hours.

  • 3 for a person

    A man who had switched off his phone and sent a message that suggested suicide was found within three hours. The police and the paper describe the rescue as timely, and no source says what harm would otherwise have followed.

  • 1 for an organization

    The police say that a manual search could have taken more than 10 hours and that AIID narrowed the area for the ten officers who searched. The 10-hour figure is an estimate.

Depth runs from 1, a convenience or time saved, to 5, a life or a livelihood preserved.

Status
Reported benefit.
Evidence

foundstudiedreportedclaimed

An independent news report supports the benefit.

Size

No magnitude yet: distribution is not documented.

Compared with

A manual search of the camera footage by officers. Assumed without a measurement.

The system’s part
Not isolated. The Seoul Economic Daily and the Korea Herald credit AIID with showing where the man was last seen, and the police team says that its fast route tracking allowed the rescue in time. No source compares the search with and without the system, and the 10-hour figure is a police estimate. Officers still confirmed matches by eye, and the reports do not say how AIID was trained.
Later
Persisted, 20 October 2025. Anyang City said that police used AIID again on 3 October 2025 and found an 88-year-old with dementia about three hours after the search began.
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Benefit type
Improved Physical Health
System
AIID (Advanced Integrated Intelligence for Identification)
Made by
Anyang City, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the Korean National Police Agency
Used by
Anyang Dongan Police Station, using the Anyang smart city integrated center
Where
Anyang (Dongan district), Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Stage
In a pilot
Date
Kind
Protective response
Broad benefit
Physical health
Collections
Safeguards
Last revised
1 November 2026

Sources

  1. News report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    Seoul Economic Daily (서울경제), "[단독]사상 최초...AI가 자살시도 실종자 '골든타임' 내에 구했다", 8 September 2025. The paper's own exclusive report, with statements from police, the developer (KIST) and Anyang City.

    안양 동안경찰서는 그러나 스마트관제센터에 탑재된 AIID 시스템을 가동해 실종자가 한 어린이공원에서 마지막으로 포착됐다는 점을 신속히 파악했다. 이에 강력팀 3명, 형사팀 2명, 지구대 4명을 추가 투입해 10명이 집중 수색을 벌여 최초 신고가 접수된 지 3시간 만에 실종자를 구해냈다.

  2. News report, relays the account of the organization that used it.

    The Korea Herald, 'In a first in South Korea, AI locates missing person by analyzing camera footage', 8 September 2025. The outlet relays local media reports of the Anyang Dongan Police Station's account and contains no reporting of its own.

    The system identified him in a nearby park, allowing police to locate him within three hours of the report.

  3. News report, relays the account of the organization that used it.

    SBS Biz, 'AI가 CCTV 2천대 추적...실종 치매 노인 3시간 만에 구조', 20 October 2025. The outlet relays Anyang City's announcement of a second case and contains no reporting of its own.

    안양동안서 관계자는 "에이드 시스템 덕분에 수색 초기 단계에서 실종자 동선을 초 단위로 정확하게 파악하고 수색 범위를 좁힐 수 있었고, 조기 발견해 구조했다"고 말했습니다.

Details

AI system

Workflow

Officers entered a photo of the missing man and a description of his clothing into AIID and limited the search area to his neighborhood. AIID picked look-alike people from public camera footage and linked the cameras into a movement graph to narrow where the man had disappeared. Ten officers searched the area that AIID had narrowed down.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

Public cameras cover the area where the person was last seen. Officers confirm each AIID match by eye, because the system only narrows the group of people to check. Other police units supply officers to search the narrowed area.

Entry details

Sector

Policing and missing-person search.

Purpose

Anyang City, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and the Korean National Police Agency built AIID to find missing people by searching public camera footage and predicting where they went.

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Cite this benefit

Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). AIID camera search finds a missing man in Anyang in three hours (AIBD-1206). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 2 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-1206.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 9.0)

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