Hallelujah. As long suffering reader knows, we have been working to defeat facial recognition technology for a decade. Oftentimes with problematic results.
From New Atlas, January 22:
They may be a little brutal on the eye, but Capable says its visually confusing and extremely pricey cotton knits are designed to throw off AI facial recognition systems, by fooling machine learning systems into thinking you're an animal and not a human.
There are plenty of reasons why people might not want to be tracked by widespread facial recognition technology – for most folk, it's a pretty dystopian thought that governments worldwide now have access to systems that can identify and profile you simply using footage from surveillance cameras. And even in countries where governments have sworn they won't use it, the tech is just as available to corporations, who can and will use it to target you with advertising.
You can fool most of these machines by wearing a mask, but Turin-based fashion house Capable has come up with a creative solution that stops AI systems in their tracks, even with your face fully exposed....
....MUCH MORE
Even with masks, i.e. the worthless cloth bacteria catchers, a well trained algorithm can make matches with quite a bit of accuracy just by using the distance between your pupils.
Furthermore, most of the approaches we've looked at have their own set of problems, most notably that what throws-off the camera actually draws attention from the security peeps and passersby on the street. Here are some from a 2018 post "China’s Surveillance State: AI Startups, Tech Giants Are At The Center Of The Government’s Plans":
...hairstyles + makeup that confuse facial recognition algos:
"Magic AI: These are the Optical Illusions that Trick, Fool, and Flummox Computers"
Following up on yesterday's "Another Way To Fool The Facial Recognition Algos" in general and more specifically the MIT-linked "Adversarial Images, Or How To Fool Machine Vision" post.
First though a bit of housekeeping.
Just so you know, I don't actually use the make-up techniques featured in the earlier posts. Despite the fact they have some efficacy at fooling the camera they make you look like a moron to human observers on the street. Better to just put on some glasses and blend into the crowd.
That's a Kennedy wedding. For what it's worth I didn't recognize anyone.
Plain old dazzle camouflage back in 2013's How to Hide From Cameras:
And makeup alone:
Now, if you'll excuse me for a bit, I have to go out in public for a bite to eat:
So I'll probably give snazzy Italian couture a whirl.
Possibly also of interest: "Google parent Alphabet invents fish recognition system".
