Make Up Tips to Make Your Face Illegible to Computers. Instead of going as Edward Snowden or digging out that tattered skeleton outfit, you could simply apply a little makeup to become a new kind of Halloween ghost: The Person Impervious to Face-Recognizing Cameras.
According to a helpful makeup video on YouTube, all you need is some tape, scissors, eyeshadow and something called CV Dazzle. Developed by the artist Adam Harvey, CV Dazzle is a modern take off on the dazzle camoflage from World War I, which was used to protect warships from submarines. This one is designed to hide from cameras ("CV" means computer vision). The video is a take off too, by an artist named Jillian Mayer, and is just as deadpan.
"The more you distort your look" by applying the bright paint around the nose, bridge, lips or ocular region around the eyes, she says, "the harder time computers will have identifying you. " A couple of years ago, Adam Harvey and DIS Magazine showed off some of the possibilities: Photos courtesy DIS Magazine More on algorithmic recognition: (144) Surveillance: Are there any technologies to prevent yourself from being captured on camera or video. Anonymous releases how-to instructions on fooling facial recognition (VIDEO) CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey. Martin Backes – Offical Website » New Artwork: Pixelhead. Worried about your picture showing up on Google Streetview?
Sick of photos of yourself appearing on sites like Facebook? Here`s the solution! Pixelhead limited multiple (coming soon) 2010 Dimensions: 60 x 30 cm Material: satin stretch, fabric printing color, photo The full face mask Pixelhead acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognizable on photographs taken in public places without securing permission. A simple piece of fabric creates a little piece of anonymity for the Internet age.
A big thanks goes to Liza Sander who helped me out with her great knowledge of her profession as a fashion designer. At the moment I am planning a limited edition of this artwork, so let me know if you`re interested in buying on of these „Pixelheads“. The Pixelhead limited edition will be available soon. The photo above provides an insight into the production process. The Pixelhead art work is now available as a limited Edition of 333 pieces.
How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology. The day when you’ll be able to hold up your phone and identify a stranger through a viewfinder is getting closer.
Google’s Goggles, a mobile app for visual search, has a facial recognition version unreleased to the public, while Israeli startup Face.com’s technology can tag people’s faces in Facebook photos. Facebook even released a basic version of face detection last night, although it doesn’t have recognition. So in a world where technology chips away at our ability to remain anonymous, how does one reclaim some semblance of control?
It turns out there’s actually a pretty simple way around the facial recognition technology available in the market today, according to Adam Harvey, a graduate student at NYU’s ITP (the same program that produced Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley and that Twitter’s location guru Raffi Krikorian taught at). “It breaks apart the gestalt of the face,” he said. Harvey says there a couple of projects that could stem from idea. Makeup to Fool Face Recognition Software.