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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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You could google, but probably better to just ignore the fact that juggalos exist...
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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.
I don't know, either. May have something to do with boobs?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second Oh, he gets butt-naked And then he walks through the streets Winking at the freaks With a two-liter stuck in his butt-cheeks What is a juggalo? He just don't care He might try to put a weave In his nut hair 'cause he could give a fuck less What a bitch thinks He tell her that her butt stinks And all that What is a juggalo? He drinks like a fish And then he starts huggin people Like a drunk bitch Next thing, he's pickin fights With his best friends Then he starts with the huggin again Fuck! What is a juggalo? A fucking lunatic Somebody with a rope tied to his dick Then he jumps out a ten-story window Oh! What is a juggalo? A juggalo That's what it is Well, fuck, if I know What is a juggalo? I don't know But I'm down with the clown And I'm down for life, yo Southwest? (we juggalos) Down river? (we juggalos) Jefferson? (we juggalos) Fuckin everybody (we juggalos) I'm that juggalugga locoroni Get the fuck up Get the fuck the out of here What is a juggalo? A dead body Well, he ain't really dead, but he ain't like Anybody that you've ever met before He'll eat monopoly and shit out connect four What is a jug..? What the fuck? Connect four? Man that shit is whack Don't worry about my shit Just rap motherfucker What is a juggalo? He ain't a bitchboy He'll walk through the hills And beat down a rich boy Walks right in the house When you're having supper And dip his nuts in your soup, gloop! What is a juggalo? Well, he ain't a phoney He'll walk up and bust a nut in your macaroni And watch you sit there And finish up the last bit 'cause your a stupid ass dump fuckin idiot What is a juggalo? He's a graduate He graduated from....well At least, he got a job He's not a dump puts He works for himself scratching his nuts What is a juggalo? A Hulkamaniac He powerbombs motherfuckers into thumbtacks People like him till They find out he's unstable He Sabu'd your momma through a coffee table I'm that juggalugga locoroni Get the fuck up Get the fuck the out of here I'm that juggalugga locoroni I figured you wouldn't understand Detroit? (we juggalos) Cleveland? (we juggalos) St. Louis? (we juggalos) Everybody? (we juggalos) (3x) Fuckin everybody? (we juggalos) Everybody? (we juggalos) What is a juggalo?
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"
Did you read the first sentence of the article
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Ah, that explains it.
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.
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That is the refrain of an actual Insane Clown Posse song.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody ever claimed juggalos were the brightest crayons in the box...
It's a perjorative term for a particular and tragic form of developmental disability, specifically, people who are fans of the "musical" group Insane Clown Posse.
But fucking magnets, how do they work?
Get off my lawn
What is a juggalo?
Someone who thinks linebreaks are whack.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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.
perhaps this will help;
Juggalos for life>
Or maybe it won't.
I can't explain them.
Juggalos, how do they work?
I'm as confused as Charlie.
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.
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...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.
Spectacular!
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.
Protip: Not everyone in the world browses websites with the same software and configuration as you do.
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?
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