Jan 08, 2017 18:00:00

Protect your privacy with clothing printed with a special pattern that prevents face recognition technology

While 'face recognition technology' for automatically identifying people from images and images is convenient, it is also true that there are concerns about security and privacy. Adam Harvey, who is alerting face recognition technology from a privacy perspective, has developed a special pattern that prevents face recognition and plans to release clothing that utilizes this.

HyperFace | Adam Harvey

https://ahprojects.com/hyperface

Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/04/anti-surveillance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface

Launched in 2013 by Harvey in collaboration with design studio hyphen labs , HyperFace was founded with the goal of researching ways to protect yourself from facial recognition technology. A product developed by this project with a pattern that evades face recognition technology will be exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2017.

This seems to prevent discrimination by face recognition technology developed by HyperFace. Face recognition using the technology called OpenCV distinguishes a person's face by looking for the part where the color tone changes greatly in the photograph or the characteristic pattern of the face, but the pattern developed by HyperFace is near the face. When installed in, the face recognition technology reacts to the pattern, making it difficult to distinguish the face of a person. Simply put, face recognition technology prioritizes recognition of 'patterns' rather than 'human faces.'

OpenCV uses a 'Confidence Score' to identify a person's face, but the HypeFace pattern has the effect of lowering the 'Confidence Score' for a person's face, which allows face recognition. The technology seems to preferentially recognize 'pattern' as 'face'.

HyperFace will announce clothes using this 'pattern' on January 16th. It is expected that there will be clothing that can be worn around the face, such as a prototype scarf with a pattern.

Harvey of HyperFace has been researching self-defense methods from face recognition technology since he was a college student, and when he was a college student, he announced a hair makeup technology called

'CV Dazzle'. CV Dazzle is inspired by the dazzle camouflage that paints ships with geometric patterns and confuses enemy forces, such as painting geometric patterns asymmetrically on the face and hiding facial parts with hair. Then the computer could not recognize it as a face.