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I'm curious as well, and also curious about the legality of face detection camouflage (which I don't see how they could force you to remove)... https://cvdazzle.com/

Bedazzle yourself!

Juggalo makup is like a poorer version of CV Dazzle which is a growing collection of makeup designed to beat OpenCV facial recognition -- not by throwing off the algo's measures, but by preventing it from even recognizing you have a face.

Luckily there already exist Fashions that defeat recognition systems. Just change your look every day. Or put some InfraRed LEDs in your hat. Until all the cool kids are wearing CV-evasive cyberpunk fashion just change your style from time to time. It's as easy as putting on a baseball cap or turning on/off its LEDs.

Except nerds know that snapchat {...} implement it in a chat-application. And nerds would be interested in the technological aspects {...} at least the nerds slashdot was originally aimed at.

10 years ago, some /.er might have been interested in automatic matching a "feature mesh" over a photo with some OpenCV powered face recognition software.
(So that any face edit meme that gets suddenly popular on something awful can quickly be implemented with a short script and rolled to snapchat end users with minimal originallity).

Nowadays, the interests of most /.er is in how *NOT* to have their face detected by the apps.

Common where have you been hidden during the last 10 Chaos Computing Club Congresses ???

80's disco fashions look to be headed back in a big way

Or dazzle camouflage makeup. See, 1980s cyberpunk was right when it thought we'd all soon look like extras in an early Lady Gaga video!

We'll see if CV Dazzle becomes fashionable.

even if it did become fashionable, the software would be adapted to deal with such anomalies if it hasn't been already.

We'll see if CV Dazzle becomes fashionable.

Some cool thinking by AVG, but the ideas presented have significant limitations, as they themselves acknowledge if you click through and read their actual link.

A more reliable (and perhaps feasible?) line of inquiry has been started by CV Dazzle through their use of "camouflage" glasses, facial markings, and/or hairstyles.
Very interesting stuff here: http://cvdazzle.com/

More like CV Dazzle

A burkha will get you "profiled". Weird hair and makeup is a fasion statement.

Or makeup: http://cvdazzle.com/

For sure, disguises to baffle algorithms differ from disguises to baffle humans. Here's a web site about disguises to baffle facial recognition systems. Probably not something anyone would want to wear outside a fashion event or a political demo, but interesting anyway.
http://cvdazzle.com/

No, start protecting your privacy.

You do not have to allow then to do it.

http://cvdazzle.com/

And, self promotion (baby steps, but working):

https://play.google.com/store/...

sure. it works now because these computer vision algorithms are crude. I, and most people, would have little problem identifying those people. It's only a matter of time before a system is sophisticated enough to recognize that's a dude with some paint on his face and a silly hairstyle.

Plus, if you wear that mask all the time, it will become part of the recognition as well. And don't think that we can create a unique mask every day, because we humans cannot do that, well except if you're a 14 year old girl with hormones going up the roof.

No, start protecting your privacy.

You do not have to allow then to do it.

http://cvdazzle.com/

And, self promotion (baby steps, but working):

https://play.google.com/store/...

sure. it works now because these computer vision algorithms are crude. I, and most people, would have little problem identifying those people. It's only a matter of time before a system is sophisticated enough to recognize that's a dude with some paint on his face and a silly hairstyle.

No, start protecting your privacy.

You do not have to allow then to do it.

http://cvdazzle.com/

And, self promotion (baby steps, but working):

https://play.google.com/store/...

As a cyberneticist, who grew up playing Shadowrun instead of D&D, I'm perfectly fine with being defined as a member of the non-human tribe.

Perhaps it's time to rund around like this.

I'm considering it in earnest. Sheesh. To think that I'm paying taxes to support this is really revolting.

No way that'll stay legal. Fortunately you can foil these things with the right makeup...

Wearing a mask is rather blunt. I think surveillance evading camouflage make-up instead will turn out to be a fashion trend during the next decade.

As with any trend, only a handful of people would dare walk around looking like that at first - privacy supporters, activists, etc. - and they would stand out in the crowd. But the idea of camouflage might catch on as more people opted-in (some because of privacy concerns, others because it just looks cool and futuristic). Kind of like torn jeans and facial piercings from punk - they used to look shocking to some a while back, but nowadays are completely mainstream and disconnected from the originating subculture.

People will start wearing new hairstyles as countermeasures?

Now, if you're really paranoid, there ought to be all sorts of ways to do the equivalent of dazzle camouflage in your DMV photo.

There are, and you're not the first to think of it.

Seeing as how this is NJ, I'm still going with my Insane Clown Posse makeup countermeasure.

try http://cvdazzle.com/ for face-detection thwarting ideas. http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/01/how-to/how-to-use-camouflage-to-thwart-facial-recognition

Any decent dazzle patterns to degrade ANPR?

(Other then the obvious drive through a muddy puddle --- the reason why I'm so glad the local council have still not resurfaced the intersection near home.)

This is going to drive fashion in new directions.
Finally, a practical application.