Designer Reverse-Engineers Face-Detection Tech to Develop Camouflage Makeup

some of those make-up patterns are hot

Isn't there a new facial recognition method that uses noses to identify people? You might have to add a fake nose to the make-up.

Some of those patterns remind me of the street people in Blade Runner :)

After all this time that technology reports have been telling us new ways that our privacy could be chipped away...this is a ray of good news. But I wouldn't use them myself.

I can see people getting tattoos like these in the future but I can also see a problem is with escalation. If they were able to reverse engineer the ability for the computers to match our faces then what's going to stop programmers from finding a way to compensate for this?

when you read stuff like this you have to wonder why the regular joe's out there don't stop these abuses of power. The criminals out there are not justification of my loss of privacy.

Conspiracy Theorist: HA! Those S.O.B.s in the government will never even know im there !!! This will so totally confuse the face recognition software !!!!

Friend: Um....yeah, about that......You know you stick out like a clown at a funeral to ACTUAL people though, right?

These are also rather aparent - 80's glam make-up aside.

I can't imagine any of these being more subtile than just wearing a full mask.

Also, if they did "catch on" and become mainstream, it would be easy to compensate for them.

If you're gonna go to all that trouble, why not just go full camo paint patterns?

They teach this stuff in basic training...like how to put tiger stripes on your face to confuse even the best human face detector known to man: the human brain.

If a skilled marksman can't detect your face, a computer with the most rudimentary of detection abilities won't be able to either.

someone needs to tell this guy to do all the major pop culture facepaints: braveheart, dead presidents, kiss, etc. can william wallace get away w/ his card counting scheme in vegas?

This is captcha technology for humans

If a person walks down the street looking like that, wouldn't that be a tipoff he's trying to hide his ID?

Hey, how about a veil? Wouldn't that work?

If I were to design a system of recognition, I would pick points on the face that don't change. That would include the inside and outside corners of the eyes, the tip of the nose, the distance between the outsides of the nostrils, the top of the upper lip, corners of the lips when not smiling or frowning, the center of the bottom of the lower lip, and the bottom of the chin.

In profile there would be other points. A line would be drawn between each point and every other point. One of the distances would be given a value of 1, such as between the outer corners of the eyes. All other distances would be measured as a percentage of that. That would be translated into a list of numbers, which would then become a code that would be compared to other such lists.

The problem with facial recognition systems is based off of mathematical measurements of the human face.
Alto there is a basic measurement known to an artist whenever they draw a portrait but still there are variances that distinguish a difference from one face to another.
Facial recognition systems will never be perfected until they catalog the entire DNA genetic mapping of every human that ever lived, which facial recognition systems technology would be most useful to do.
I theorize that the reasons of why we have a twin look-a-like somewhere else in this world is because humans are in groups of species that characterize traits of abilities, adaptations and survival.
Maybe one of these days, we will be able use facial recognition systems to identify diseases and illness in a person before it begins to happen or be able to identify your best traits in your skills and your chances to succeed in life.
As far as the usage of facial recognition systems, let’s not get off on the wrong foot with using it to curtail the criminal activities of humans.
Facial recognition systems can do a lot more then that!

no makeup is needed, wear a Bhurka or equivalent. Hard to identify anyone in real life or on a camera image if they are covered from head to toe.

Several potential pitfalls here, I've been watching face-recognition tech since it's early days of "production" usage, the most obvious pitfall is this article seems focused only on "visible" image detection.

What I mean is if passively scanning a series of visible light photos or video captures for recognized faces, this technique might work fine to avoid detection.

However most higher-end recognition systems are very aware of potential optical camouflage techniques, and use either IR or "sonar/radar-based" (bounce sound or radio waves off and generate a topography map of your features) identification methods instead of "visible light" scanning. It's very hard to hide your image in the IR or other EM spectrums for more than a few seconds with any sort of makeup, and a thin cloth (veil for instance) isn't a protection either in such instances.

However for casual optical scans (what would be most common/widespread/cheap), these tricks can definitely work.

whatever happened to a pair of shades, hoodie, and fake moustache?

when you read stuff like this you have to wonder why the regular joe's out there don't stop these abuses of power. The criminals out there are not justification of my loss of privacy.
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