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Juggalos Figured Out How To Beat Facial Recognition (theoutline.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Outline: As if they weren't already doing the absolute most, the die-hard fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse have become accidental heroes for people concerned about facial recognition tech: According to Twitter user @tahkion, a computer science blogger for WonderHowTo, Juggalo makeup outmatches the machine learning algorithms that govern facial recognition technology.
In a series of follow-up tweets, @tahkion explained that facial recognition works by pinpointing the areas of contrast on a human face -- for instance, where a nose is located, or where the chin becomes the neck. As it happens, juggalo makeup often involves applying black paint below the mouth, but above the chin. That makes facial recognition vulnerable to misidentifying the placement of the jaw. Face-painting styles like "corpse" makeup also obscure the face. However, they don't create enough contrast to effectively confuse most facial recognition systems. Dramatic styles of feminine makeup, like heavy eyeliner, also are generally not enough to confuse facial recognition systems, @tahkion claims. However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
In a series of follow-up tweets, @tahkion explained that facial recognition works by pinpointing the areas of contrast on a human face -- for instance, where a nose is located, or where the chin becomes the neck. As it happens, juggalo makeup often involves applying black paint below the mouth, but above the chin. That makes facial recognition vulnerable to misidentifying the placement of the jaw. Face-painting styles like "corpse" makeup also obscure the face. However, they don't create enough contrast to effectively confuse most facial recognition systems. Dramatic styles of feminine makeup, like heavy eyeliner, also are generally not enough to confuse facial recognition systems, @tahkion claims. However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
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SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
That's all well and fine, but what's juggalo?
I think there's only one answer. Take me now Stalin!
Also, I'd be more impressed if heavy makeup of the sort I see on some women was a factor. We already knew facial recog has a tough time with stuff like this (and beards while we're at it). It just means the coppers will pull everyone over in heavy makeup and/or with a beard (no change there, amiright.gif)
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It looks like razzle dazzle camouflage is set to become the next cosmetics fashion trend.
Niqhab is useful for more than "modesty"
Face is just one easy part of CCTV, cell phone, license plate collection.
Follow the person with CCTV. Their gait, their place of work. Patterns of sleep, food. Friends of friends of friends.
Voice print, internet use, the transport patterns. Banking, funding, permits, photo ID, education, tax.
Dont have CCTV from the gov, a public private partnership in that exact location? Ask the FBI for one of their utility pole camera networks. 24/7 and everyone gets matched up. Driver, passenger, delivery, shopping, walking, education, cell phone.
Ask the mil/feds for a fly over. That will collect on every sell phone and wireless network in the area.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Fezzik: Why do you wear a mask? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?
Westley: Oh no. It's just they're terrible comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future.
However, facial recognition tech such as Apple's Face ID, which does not rely on visible light and uses depth perception, would not be tricked by juggalo makeup.
I read TFA sadly, but I don't understand why this sentence is in there - probably clickbait. The whole article is about surveillance and online face matching technology, and fooling it so it cannot identify you.
What I understand is if you wear the make-up and try to unlock your phone that uses image recognition, then it'll fail. You cannot unlock any phone using make-up. Besides there are easier methods.
but the hero's we deserve.
Facial recognition is one thing. There are also some subtle actions tracking recognition cab do, like gait, height, backtracking... You're never invisible, never untrackable.
This is how evolution happens. Predators identify prey. Prey with markings that deceive a predator's system survive. Or vice versa, prey identify stalking predators. Predators with markings that hide them well are more successful.
Add in a few million years of arms racfe and you've got things with stripes, spots, false eyes.
This doesn't bode well for the human race, as juggalos will become the dominate subspecies.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
I hooked up with a juggalo chick maybe 10 years ago. amazing oral skills. I mean, her mouth made love to my asshole. Like a horse eating an apple. next morning, she took off her makeup and it turned out she was a man. Wish I knew that before I sucked her cock. Live and learn! BTW, fucking magnets, how do they work?
An odd lot, not my cup of tea, but I am scarcely in any position to judge. It is against-the-grain subcultures that help leaven the dough of a healthy society. And indeed the desire no to be surveilled is at the very heart of all liberty.
Starships were meant to fly, Hands up and touch the sky - Nicky Minaj
Couldn't I use kiss makeup instead? At east that's a classic! And then we can rock n roll all night
for a reason
Table-ized A.I.
Fucking make up, how does that work?
When this actually gets used for ditching facial recog, additional features will be added to the recog algo to determine facial structure from the shine of the paint. Now, if you really want to screw with all facial recog (natural and artificial) then you should paint your face with super black which will turn your face into a silhouette.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Am I seriously reading a juggalo headline about facial recognition on Slashdot?
Get the fuck outta here!!
ICP! Rpresent!!
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.
Get off my lawn
use religious exception!
In the paranoid fantasist's mind:
Cops, "we can't find him in this crowd, I guess we'll have to give up"
In reality:
Cops, "there were 10,000 people there but finding our suspect was easy because everyone stupid enough to wear clown makeup stood out like a sore thumb."
33c3 figured it out almost 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKmyY5ujeU
Try again
It's trivial to train a machine learning software to identify such makeup and single out the persons wearing it. The same is true for any other measures to defeat facial recognition. These are easy to beat technical solutions to the social problem of making automated facial recognition and tracking legal in the first place. Not every surveillance technology that is feasible should be legal. Automated mass surveillance has more perils than benefits.
Facial recognition is obviously looking for points on a face so if you confuse it by wearing a mask or makeup, you're going to break it. I doubt anyone would bother to do it unless they were participating in something where there was a fear of identification. That could be a lawful protest, or some unlawful act like a riot. Even there I'm sure the cops would have other methods of identification if they felt it necessary - CCTV, clothing, phone signals etc.
And now you know why the US Government deemed them a terrorist organization... because they cant identify them with their cameras!
... or putting a paper bag over ones head.
Probably removing the head altogether would also do the trick.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
Welder's glasses are superior for this purpose. They help with facial recognition, but also with the entanged photon emitters beaming from the front of every commercial establishment (and usually from the door closers, as well). Facial recognition only marks you location and activity at the moment you're under the camera. Photons mark your location and activity for 15-20 minutes after you leave !!!! Much worse.
...change the detected shape of the face.
In a bucket, FR algorithms calculate the distance between eyes, chin, nose, mouth and cheeks and then create a digraph hash based on a linear combination of these measurements, in exactly the same manner fingerprint or retinal scanner algorithms create a digraph hash of the loops and swirls of fingerprints or of branching retinal arteries.
Juggalo paint, or cosmetics in general, can create enough uncertainty in some of those measurements to defeat the algorithm, but only if the sensor is using visible light. IR and UV sensors will not be fooled by pigments that do not reflect those wavelengths. What will work, however, is to alter the contours of the face. A wad of cotton tucked into the check pouches and/or between lips and gums works, as does a prosthetic applied to the bridge of the nose or forehead.
Wow. Amazing, you'd think that a burlap bag would work, but apparently not. I can't wait till they figure out that long bangs with a beard also "beat" facial recognition. Who would have guessed that large changes in a person's visual appearance would impact visual recognition??
IR and UV sensors will not be fooled by pigments that do not reflect those wavelengths.
There's an easy fix for this.
Have gnu, will travel.
Your choice is becoming a Juggalo, a Furry, a Cosplayer or a Muslim.
Why isn't there a choice that doesn't associate me with a mentally challenged group?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why not look at parts of the world where being recognized in public could lead to your rape or murder. Arabic facial scarfs, men wearing headwear and having long beards (ie basically looking the same), people all adopting the same look (like a decade and a half ago where we all knew one of our white friends who changed their look to look like Eminem). All of these things have been tactics to duck authority.
anyone remember the Gong Show?