Juggalos Figured Out How To Beat Facial Recognition (theoutline.com) 91
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Outline: As if they weren't already doing the absolute most, the die-hard fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse have become accidental heroes for people concerned about facial recognition tech: According to Twitter user @tahkion, a computer science blogger for WonderHowTo, Juggalo makeup outmatches the machine learning algorithms that govern facial recognition technology.
In a series of follow-up tweets, @tahkion explained that facial recognition works by pinpointing the areas of contrast on a human face -- for instance, where a nose is located, or where the chin becomes the neck. As it happens, juggalo makeup often involves applying black paint below the mouth, but above the chin. That makes facial recognition vulnerable to misidentifying the placement of the jaw. Face-painting styles like "corpse" makeup also obscure the face. However, they don't create enough contrast to effectively confuse most facial recognition systems. Dramatic styles of feminine makeup, like heavy eyeliner, also are generally not enough to confuse facial recognition systems, @tahkion claims. However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
In a series of follow-up tweets, @tahkion explained that facial recognition works by pinpointing the areas of contrast on a human face -- for instance, where a nose is located, or where the chin becomes the neck. As it happens, juggalo makeup often involves applying black paint below the mouth, but above the chin. That makes facial recognition vulnerable to misidentifying the placement of the jaw. Face-painting styles like "corpse" makeup also obscure the face. However, they don't create enough contrast to effectively confuse most facial recognition systems. Dramatic styles of feminine makeup, like heavy eyeliner, also are generally not enough to confuse facial recognition systems, @tahkion claims. However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
I've got a solution! (Score:4, Funny)
ELSE SET CRIMINAL = TRUE
Non-comprehension (Score:1)
That's all well and fine, but what's juggalo?
Re:Non-comprehension (Score:5, Insightful)
You could google, but probably better to just ignore the fact that juggalos exist...
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That is the refrain of an actual Insane Clown Posse song.
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I don't know, either. May have something to do with boobs?
Re:Non-comprehension (Score:5, Informative)
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shit Just rap
Ah, that explains it.
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Nobody ever claimed juggalos were the brightest crayons in the box...
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Re:Non-comprehension (Score:5, Funny)
What is a juggalo?
Someone who thinks linebreaks are whack.
Re: Non-comprehension (Score:1)
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It's a perjorative term for a particular and tragic form of developmental disability, specifically, people who are fans of the "musical" group Insane Clown Posse.
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perhaps this will help;
Juggalos for life> [youtube.com]
Or maybe it won't.
I can't explain them.
Juggalos, how do they work?
I'm as confused as Charlie.
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Protip: Not everyone in the world browses websites with the same software and configuration as you do.
Hmm... Gov't oppression or become a Juggalo? (Score:2)
Also, I'd be more impressed if heavy makeup of the sort I see on some women was a factor. We already knew facial recog has a tough time with stuff like this (and beards while we're at it). It just means the coppers will pull everyone over in heavy makeup and/or with a beard (no change there, amiright.gif)
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Also, I'd be more impressed if heavy makeup of the sort I see on some women and professional football (soccer) players was a factor.
Fixed that for you
Razzle Dazzle (Score:2)
It looks like razzle dazzle camouflage is set to become the next cosmetics fashion trend.
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Patterns match the user (Score:5, Insightful)
Follow the person with CCTV. Their gait, their place of work. Patterns of sleep, food. Friends of friends of friends.
Voice print, internet use, the transport patterns. Banking, funding, permits, photo ID, education, tax.
Dont have CCTV from the gov, a public private partnership in that exact location? Ask the FBI for one of their utility pole camera networks. 24/7 and everyone gets matched up. Driver, passenger, delivery, shopping, walking, education, cell phone.
Ask the mil/feds for a fly over. That will collect on every sell phone and wireless network in the area.
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In the USA you can still wonder if the utility pole work done was a new camera for the FBI, DEA, a state task force...
The Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] is another way to get more CCTV use in.
The Princess Bride (Score:2)
Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?
Westley: Oh no. It's just they're terrible comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
Phone unlocking? (Score:2)
However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
I read TFA sadly, but I don't understand why this sentence is in there - probably clickbait. The whole article is about surveillance and online face matching technology, and fooling it so it cannot identify you.
What I understand is if you wear the make-up and try to unlock your phone that uses image recognition, then it'll fail. You cannot unlock any phone using make-up. Besides there are easier methods.
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Extra gait and all location details would be kept.
Not the heros we need (Score:2)
but the hero's we deserve.
Facial recognition is one thing. There are also some subtle actions tracking recognition cab do, like gait, height, backtracking... You're never invisible, never untrackable.
Evolution (Score:5, Funny)
Add in a few million years of arms racfe and you've got things with stripes, spots, false eyes.
This doesn't bode well for the human race, as juggalos will become the dominate subspecies.
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Sure, survival is important, but procreation is too. I mean:
Oh yeah, put it there ... no wait! Not there! ... that's a tattoo, right?
Sorry, I couldn't tell with your
Ah never mind, we'll try for a baby next time.
Color Me - Favorably Impressed (Score:5, Insightful)
An odd lot, not my cup of tea, but I am scarcely in any position to judge. It is against-the-grain subcultures that help leaven the dough of a healthy society. And indeed the desire no to be surveilled is at the very heart of all liberty.
Re: I prefer kiss (Score:2)
I wanna rock and roll all night, and part of every day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com]
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Spectacular!
The Joker wears makeup (Score:1)
for a reason
Don't I know you? (Score:1)
Fucking make up, how does that work?
Cat and mouse. (Score:3)
When this actually gets used for ditching facial recog, additional features will be added to the recog algo to determine facial structure from the shine of the paint. Now, if you really want to screw with all facial recog (natural and artificial) then you should paint your face with super black [wikipedia.org] which will turn your face into a silhouette.
Noobs (Score:2)
Pointless (Score:2)
It's trivial to train a machine learning software to identify such makeup and single out the persons wearing it. The same is true for any other measures to defeat facial recognition. These are easy to beat technical solutions to the social problem of making automated facial recognition and tracking legal in the first place. Not every surveillance technology that is feasible should be legal. Automated mass surveillance has more perils than benefits.
And so? (Score:2)
Facial recognition is obviously looking for points on a face so if you confuse it by wearing a mask or makeup, you're going to break it. I doubt anyone would bother to do it unless they were participating in something where there was a fear of identification. That coul
and now you know why... (Score:1)
And now you know why the US Government deemed them a terrorist organization... because they cant identify them with their cameras!
Wearing a motorcycle helmet would also work (Score:2)
... or putting a paper bag over ones head.
Probably removing the head altogether would also do the trick.
The only way to defeat facial recognition is to... (Score:2)
...change the detected shape of the face.
In a bucket, FR algorithms calculate the distance between eyes, chin, nose, mouth and cheeks and then create a digraph hash based on a linear combination of these measurements, in exactly the same manner fingerprint or retinal scanner algorithms create a digraph hash of the loops and swirls of fingerprints or of branching retinal arteries.
Juggalo paint, or cosmetics in general, can create enough uncertainty in some of those measurements to defeat the algorithm, but
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IR and UV sensors will not be fooled by pigments that do not reflect those wavelengths.
There's an easy fix for this.
So, to protect your privacy against CCTV (Score:2)
Your choice is becoming a Juggalo, a Furry, a Cosplayer or a Muslim.
Why isn't there a choice that doesn't associate me with a mentally challenged group?