Tired of Facebook and Instagram identifying you in cellphone pictures random assholes keep taking and uploading of you?
Well, then the Hyperface fabric pattern is for you!
Adam Harvey, creator of 2012's CV Dazzle project to systematically confound facial recognition software with makeup and hairstyles, presented his latest dazzle iteration, Hyperface, at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg last month.
Hyperface is a pattern designed to fool the most widely used "retail surveillance" technologies, in which shops use cameras and facial recognition to identify customers in order to gather intelligence on their shopping habits, including the psychological blind-spots that might make it easier to sell to them. It's intended to go on things that are not faces, to confuse computer vision systems about whether and where faces are present in a scene.
The pattern is studded with elements that facial-recognition algorithms identify as being parts of a face, causing the systems to make bad guesses about which face it's seeing and the sentiment being displayed by that face.
Anything that increases the noise to signal ratio tends to piss off the pro-surveillance crowd, so I'm all for it. Be sure to check out the embeded video in the article to see some of the dude's other projects; I'm a particular fan of the thermal-concealing anti-drone burka. Guess old sci-fi movies were right, we really
will all be wearing silvery, flowing garments in the 21st century!
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