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Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

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Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

#3
In the description of the technology in the Collection section they explain that facial recognition systems mistake the patterns on the clothes for animals like dogs, giraffes, and zebras.

I don't know how this technology works. Is it not possible to train a system to say "human face" or not without accidental identifications of non-humans?

Edit: (And thus not be fooled by this?)

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

#4
And, from the other side, we have facial recognition systems resistant to being confused.[1]

The more advanced systems mark those people as persons of interest.[2] Then "appearance search" tracks them.[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRF5qSrmqEM

[2] https://www.avigilon.com/products/ai-video-analytics/self-le...

[3] https://www.avigilon.com/products/ai-video-analytics/appeara...

Re: Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software

#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 :)

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