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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 ZephyrBlu »

haha69 wrote: post #20
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Something like flipping a pixel would work if you manipulate the actual image (raw image) being fed to the software. Here it is captured via a camera and then fed to the software and I doubt pixel level details are captured by a camera

I don't mean literally flipping pixels, but subtle changes in the image that cause a misclassification. See this post for examples: https://pyimagesearch.com/2020/10/19/adversarial-images-and-....

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by _a_a_a_ »

meta-level wrote: post #9

Projects like this make me think of arms race ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_arms_race ). If I wanted my governments surveillance camera system to improve more quickly I'd confront it with some challenging training data by making an exploit public and available for everyone :)

Every time there's one who will anticipate defeat and failure from the start. Every bloody time. No fighting back because it's no use we've already lost. I don't want to share a world with people like you because you've nothing positive to offer.

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by JoBrad »

gdny wrote: post #21
simonh wrote: post #17

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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

But wouldn’t a car avoid a giraffe, too?

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by JoBrad »

thih9 wrote: post #29

> 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…

I think it’s really art, and is priced like it.

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

For those who closed it because it looked like there is just a "stay tuned" video and a newsletter dialog: The video disappears and a web site appears after you dismiss the newsletter dialog.

This is a really cool approach: It looks like slightly flashy but still "normal"-ish clothing, and likely actually works (by confusing the AI into thinking you're e.g. a dog).

It's terrifying that they considered it necessary to get a legal opinion to state that yes, it's legal to distribute and wear this.

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by gdny »

JoBrad wrote: post #43
gdny wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But wouldn’t a car avoid a giraffe, too?

A perfect one, sure, but in practice the car might, at best, treat it with less priority than a human in case of a difficult decision to make, and at worst, treat a « 40% confidence giraffe » as a false positive and ignore it

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by codetrotter »

gdny wrote: post #47
JoBrad wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But wouldn’t a car avoid a giraffe, too?

A perfect one, sure, but in practice the car might, at best, treat it with less priority than a human in case of a difficult decision to make, and at worst, treat a « 40% confidence giraffe » as a false positive and ignore it

Imagine the headlines.

“Man run over by car in Lower Manhattan – autonomous vehicle mistook man for a giraffe”

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Post by kolinko »

sschueller wrote: post #33

All this effort would be better put into lobbing for a law to outright ban/severely restrict the use of face recognition. https://reclaimyourface.eu/

EU already does that - face/gait recognition from cctv by private corps is illegal afaik
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