AFAIK CV-Dazzle is a hand-crafted adversarial pattern for facial detection, specifically by a Viola-Jones style detector of Haar cascades. The painted patterns

AFAIK CV-Dazzle is a hand-crafted adversarial pattern for facial detection, specifically by a Viola-Jones style detector of Haar cascades. The painted patterns invert the brightness relative to the first few filter passed to put you under the detector threshold. Modern face detectors (and recognition) have much stronger priors for e.g. shape and illumination that there is a chance they can separate the intrinsic images related to shape, texture and illumination and still work. I still think there is some merit to the approach though, since modern systems are trained on data for what most people look like (and not e.g. the band members of Kiss). Even so, they are trained to be robust to occlusions. Likely the most successful approach at this point is facial prosthetics and contact lenses to hide your irises...unless theyre using IR to look at the blood vessels in your face..etc.