Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon 71
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skids writes "All those futuristic full-face eyeliner jobs in dystopian cyberpunk fiction might not be that far off the mark. A New York University student spent his thesis time exploring computer vision technology (OpenCV) for ways in which one could confound first-stage algorithms that initially lock onto faces. Then he mixed in a bit of fashion sense to predict future geek chic. Now, whether you want to go for the coal-miner look just to stay out of the data mine, that's up to you."
"Coal-miner look"? (Score:2, Interesting)
Future geek chic ... this chick has it right ... (Score:3, Interesting)
From our "How to look non-conspicuous department": http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/paint-992000a.jpg [globalsecurity.org]
Just wear a mask (Score:5, Interesting)
Whats the point of bypassing facial recognition if you've still been recorded in a manner that could identify you? It would help abate real-time face-triggered alerts, but not much else.
If people start doing this, I predict it would only be a matter of time before the police would categorize anyone with a painted face as a possible terrorist threat, such as how the ski mask is considered now.
Re:really? (Score:5, Interesting)
In fact, it's incredibly easy to swap the nIR blocking filter in a cheap camera for an IR-pass/optically opaque filter. Leaving invisible notes for people could be pretty fun.
Re:Just wear a mask (Score:3, Interesting)
Whatever happened to just wearing a ski mask when committing a "crime"? I'm not sure I'd feel less silly painting my face than simply putting on a mask.
Not just any mask... [boingboing.net]
CAPTCHA (Score:2, Interesting)
So, in other words, this is the facial recognition equivalent of a CAPTCHA?