Camouflage from face detection

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Source: cvdazzle

CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition.

The name is derived from a type of World War I naval camouflage called Dazzle, which used cubist-inspired designs to break apart the visual continuity of a battleship and conceal its orientation and size. Likewise, CV Dazzle uses avant-garde hairstyling and makeup designs to break apart the continuity of a face. Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an "anti-face".

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CV Dazzle Look Book 2010 - present

Look N° 5 (a) For New York Times Op-Art

Model: Bre Bitz

Hair: Pia Vivas

Makeup: Giana DeYoung

Assistant Creative Direction: Tiam Taheri

Look N° 5 (b) For New York Times Op-Art

Model: Bre Bitz

Hair: Pia Vivas

Makeup: Giana DeYoung

Assistant Creative Direction: Tiam Taheri

Look N° 5 (c) For New York Times Op-Art

Model: Bre Bitz

Hair: Pia Vivas

Makeup: Giana DeYoung

Assistant Creative Direction: Tiam Taheri

Style Tips for Reclaiming Privacy

1 Makeup

Avoid enhancers: They amplify key facial features. This makes your face easier to detect. Instead apply makeup that contrasts with your skin tone in unusual tones and directions: light colors on dark skin, dark colors on light skin.

2 Nose Bridge

Partially obscure the nose-bridge area: The region where the nose, eyes, and forehead intersect is a key facial feature. This is especially effective against OpenCV's face detection algorithm.

3 Eyes

Partially obscure one of the ocular regions: The position and darkness of eyes is a key facial feature.

4 Masks

Avoid wearing masks as they are illegal in some cities. Instead of concealing your face, modify the contrast, tonal gradients, and spatial relationship of dark and light areas using hair, makeup, and/or unique fashion accessories.

5 Head

Research from Ranran Feng and Balakrishnan Prabhakaran at University of Texas, shows that obscuring the elliptical shape of a head can also improve your ability to block face detection. Link: Facilitating fashion camouflage art

6 Asymmetry

Facial-recognition algorithms expect symmetry between the left and right sides of the face. By developing an asymmetrical look, you may decrease your probability of being detected.

Please go to cvdazzle to read the entire article and view images.
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Source: The Mind Unleashed

40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition is Threatening Democracy

We must take action and guard what little privacy remains before it's too late.

By DERRICK BROZE | January 31, 2020

(TMU) — On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology.

The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and signed by organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Color of Change, Fight for the Future, Popular Resistance, and the Consumer Federation of America. The letter calls on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to "recommend to the President and the Secretary of Homeland Security the suspension of facial recognition systems, pending further review."

The PCLOB was originally created in 2004, as an independent agency that advises the administration on privacy issues. "The Congress specifically found that new surveillance powers 'calls for an enhanced system of checks and balances to protect the precious liberties that are vital to our way of life and to ensure that the Government uses its powers for the purposes for which the powers were given'," the letter states.

The organizations challenge the PCLOB to "examine the more significant public concerns about the use of facial recognition in public spaces." They also call on the board to address concerns that facial recognition software can be used by "authoritarian governments to control minority populations and limit dissent could spread quickly to democratic societies."

The letter from EPIC mentions a recent New York Times investigation of a facial recognition service used by more than 600 law enforcement agencies across the country. As the Mind Unleashed recently reported, Manhattan-based Clearview AI is collecting data from unsuspecting social media users and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) is using the controversial facial recognition tool to pinpoint the identity of unknown suspects. The Times investigation shows that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are also using the controversial tool.

Please go to The Mind Unleashed to read the entire article.
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Here, try this gear out to avoid surveillance cameras.

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— TIME (@TIME) January 27, 2020

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