Urban Camouflage (Bowie was right)

Sunday, April 18. 2010

Urban Camouflage (Bowie was right)

So where were the Spiders?

This rather fascinating article looks at the way you should use make-up to confuse automatic face recognition systems.

Preliminary makeup patterns to hide from face detection.

- Images with a red square tested positive, a face was found
- Images without a red square tested negative, no face was found
- Images under the section “TEST PATTERNS” are made according to results of the Haar deconstruction
- Images under “RANDOM PATTERNS” are random doodles made without the anti-face detection patterns in mind
- Images underneath the “NO PATTERNS” heading are left untouched to show that the face detection works well on simple line drawings
- Line drawings are from Figure Drawing for Fashion Design

So - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (or was that maybe Aladdin Sane) may still stand out a mile in 2010 Britain, but their faces will be unrecogniseable

Posted by Alan Patrick in Identity / Profiles / Trust at 22:40 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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That could be Adam Ant too couldn't it?

I think that would tend to make your real face unrecognisable to humans as well as software - they'll remember the weird makeup more than the real facial features, so could work as a distraction tactic too.

#1 Improbulus (Homepage) on 2010-04-18 23:35 (Reply)

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