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Sign of the Times: Camo That Outwits Facebook’s Facial Recognition… via .
Adam Harvey’s thesis project at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication Program is very Philip K. Dick: in a world where there’s some computer-assisted lens watching you almost everywhere, use the inherent dumbness of facial recognition algorithms against them. How? With artfully-applied, avant-garde face makeup called CV Dazzle. It works like a charm against Facebook’s built-in face-detecting bots, too…
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Heh. Tropical fish have been doing this for eons…
Comment by WestfW — March 15, 2011 @ 1:53 am
Testing the resistor thing.
Comment by Mr Tester — March 15, 2011 @ 5:47 pm
Rather than wear makeup, why not just use photo shop to alter the photo enough so it can’t be recognised by facial recognition software?
Comment by FotoShop — March 15, 2011 @ 5:50 pm
@FotoShop – because the point of this isn’t to fool facebook, it’s to fool facial recognition software being run against CCTV and other surveillance camera networks. The same facial recognition algorithms are used in facebook’s system and in iPhoto, so it’s a viable proof-of-concept. I, for one, welcome our Pris-doppleganger overlords.
Comment by mmgarland3 — March 16, 2011 @ 8:23 am