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Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by gdny »

simonh wrote: post #17
gdny wrote: post #14

This seems to prevent people from being detected by a generic object detector, but it doesn’t seem obvious that it will actually confuse a face detector… it might however confuse an autonomous vehicle, wouldn’t wear this in the street

I’m not sure where you get that from. These are specifically designed to confuse face detection software. Edit: Maybe I see the cause of confusion. The videos show “person” detection, but the way these systems distinguish people from other objects is by faces. As far as I know cars don’t do that, they just detect objects and don’t care about faces, so it shouldn’t be an issue.

At the bottom of the « collections » page in the technology paragraph, they mention confusing the Yolo object detector into thinking you’re a giraffe with medium confidence instead of a person

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by dylan604 »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #16
uncletaco wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they have to be gaudy to fool cameras.

I doubt this is true. I've seen adversarial version of images which are very similar to the original image. E.g. an image of a cat that has had some pixels flipped so it's classified as a dog instead.

okay, but i'm not going in for an elective surgery to have some of the pixels on my actual face flipped. i'd rather just wear a hat and other things to disrupt/block cameras from seeing my face

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by zahma »

Well with those prices, organic and fair trade cotton or not, it’s certainly not going to be “for the people.” On the net, privacy will become a luxury fewer people can afford, and that holds true with this apparel as well. Maybe others will follow suit and scale down prices, but for now I wouldn’t pay 400€ for this.

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by radu_floricica »

zahma wrote: post #25

Well with those prices, organic and fair trade cotton or not, it’s certainly not going to be “for the people.” On the net, privacy will become a luxury fewer people can afford, and that holds true with this apparel as well. Maybe others will follow suit and scale down prices, but for now I wouldn’t pay 400€ for this.

> On the net, privacy will become a luxury fewer people can afford, and that holds true with this apparel as well.

I wouldn't put it like this. It's a niche product only a tiny number of people are interested in, most of them with moderate to high incomes. Of course they're going to price it like this.

Anything that's liable to be mass purchased will also be mass produced at very thin margins - which in this case means more or less the same margins as ordinary clothing. tl;dr: if there was real demand, they'd be just a bit more expensive than ordinary clothes.

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by thih9 »

> KNIT LONG SLEEVE HOODIE €420.00 Sale Price

Isn’t that very expensive?

Is their goal letting people avoid facial recognition, or is that just a marketing tactic and their goal is to maximize profits?

> The algorithm on the textile hinders the object recognition software’s capabilities, causing it to not recognize the person wearing this garment. Instead, it recognizes the textile as nothing, a “zebra”, or a “giraffe”.

That’s just inaccurate; it would be more accurate to say: the pattern on the textile may cause some algorithms (which ones? how often?) to misbehave.

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by junon »

jstummbillig wrote: post #27
doctor_eval wrote: post #24

Ironic (?) that this page comes with a cookie warning.

Is it? It being a warning and all?

The alternative is to not use cookies at all. The fact there's a cookie warning means they're tracking usage and, assumedly, assigning you an ID to analyze your behavior on their site.

Which is expressly contradictive of their "mission".

Unrelated: These prices are insane.

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