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How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
- gubatron 16y agoThere's never been a better time to be a creepy stalker. Back in the beginning when Facebook wasn't stalker friendly I remember wanting to have auto tagging based on facial recognition. Now... now I'm afraid that I'll get tagged by other people in facebook (even though I'm not part of it anymore) and facebook will of course make money by selling all the facial patterns to third parties. The applications of facial recognition make my mind fly, they remind me of Minority Report and marketers recognizing you wherever you go, it makes me think of even more divorces based on far more evidence that will be automatically available on social networks. I think I'll start wearing some make-up a few months from now, or turn my face away every time I see a camera. The end of anonymity is near.
- jrockway 16y agoIf you're really concerned, the solution is simple. Don't tell your friends the same name that you tell the government. If a bunch of people tag you as "John Smith" on Facebook, and "Bill Smitthers" is the person that is behind on his back taxes, face recognition with data bought from Facebook is not going to find you.
- dieterrams 16y agoWhy'd you assume that the government was his (only) concern?
- jrockway 16y agos/government/whatever/g;
- eagleal 16y agoWhen you register at school, you're required to use your real name. It will always come up, one way or another.
- anamax 16y agoSo? BTW - In the US, there's no law mandating a unique "real name".
- blahedo 16y agoTrue—your name is whatever you get people to call you, legally, at least in some states—but the very important caveat is that if you change your name or use an alias for purposes of fraud, either to defraud someone else or to defraud the gov't, that's still illegal. So for instance, it's perfectly legal for me to write my name as "Don" even though my SS card says "Donald", but then, I'm writing my actual SS# on my taxes (and paying them!), so there's no fraud.
- eagleal 16y agoReplying late. In Italy, or Albania, your name is registered after your gov documents. You can use a "mouth" different name with your friends, but since the register of the class is open and stays always on the room, everyone could read it.
- justintnt 16y agoliquid sky
- lunchbox 16y agoOne interesting thing I've read is that eyebrows may be more important for face recognition (by humans) than the appearance of the eyes themselves. (I suspect this has more to do with the shape of the brow bone than the eyebrow hair.) See this example: http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png http://i.imgur.com/ADXtF.png The research was done by Pawan Sinha at MIT.
- Jun8 16y agoInteresting, because shaving you eyebrows is easy and is not as conspicuous as painting your face.
- lunchbox 16y agoSure, or wearing a headband over the eyebrows. But computers probably detect faces differently, so I don't know if this would fool a computer.
- sesqu 16y agoThe one system I read about in passing, which was surprisingly accurate, just looked for off-color blots to the bottom, left and right of a supposed face. If you're not blonde, eyebrows probably contribute more to the blot than the pupils.
- kranner 16y ago"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." - Frank Zappa
- eru 16y ago"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso I wonder where all those artists get their knowledge about computers from. Whoever thinks that computer can only give you answers, and only do what they are told to---has never debugged.
- 1amzave 16y agoOr, to avoid detection by cameras entirely, lemon juice: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosogno... "But I wore the juice!"
- tomjen3 16y agoCameras can't see the difference between visible light and infrared, so one thing you could do would be to put a bunch of lnfrared leds on your face - humans can't see it, but to the cameras your head looks like a light bulb.
- evilduck 16y agoI always wanted to do this for my license plate.
- dandelany 16y agoReminds me of Pris from Blade Runner: http://bit.ly/aiM8xZ http://bit.ly/aiM8xZ Maybe she was just trying to avoid being recognized :)
- delano 16y agoFace paint, seriously? You might fool the software but every person that sees you will remember you forever.
- baha_man 16y ago"Putting paint on your face isn't always practical," he said. "This is just the way that I wanted to test this. But if you wanted to be covert, you could try wearing different styles of make-up or accessories. You could position a Band-aid on the right spot on your face. The power of this idea is that people can interpret it in their own way."
- delano 16y agoHe almost had me with the band-aid, but you could only do that once, maybe twice, per social circle before it became a gimmick.
- Maciek416 16y agoThis technique is somewhat reminiscent of Dazzle Camo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage What's interesting is that Dazzle camo is typically used to confuse the visual systems of human beings, not computer vision, but some of the principles and tricks seem to be the same.
- baha_man 16y agoFrom the article: "Harvey said he got his idea from studying camouflage methods use during World War I and World War II. His project, CV Dazzle, is based on the original dazzle camouflage used by the military to hide ships in the 1940s."
- astine 16y agoThis would explain David Bowie. http://dailymaily.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/davidbowie001.jpg http://dailymaily.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/davidbowie001.... http://cdn.venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/face-recognition-makeup.jpg http://cdn.venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/face-r...