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Posted by rbanffy 4 hours ago

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon(spectrum.ieee.org)
61 points | 27 comments
bsenftner 2 hours ago|
There is a weak component to facial recognition systems that can be exploited to make one invisible to facial recognition, but you stick out like a sore thumb to people. The exploit is to not have a human face, meaning the regular pattern of two eyes centered above a nose and mouth. The exploit is as simple as placing a sticker of a 3rd eye, a 2nd nose, or any other facial feature that is "not human" and you will be invisible to facial recognition. The reason this works is because the initial test for finding faces in images is a weak test, it has to be fast because it has to evaluate every possible rectangle in a video frame. That test is looking for the regular human pattern of a human face, and it that test passes that rectangle get more investigation. Failing that initial test, that rectangle is invisible...
yndoendo 1 hour ago||
Anyone else think of "A Scanner Darkly" movie with the interpolate mask that transitions between different faces as the means for better Adversarial Fashion?

Wouldn't one be able to use a hyper real mask to create false evident to frame someone? People are so blind in trusting AI that innocent people are being left in jail were primitive detective work would prove they were not he culprit. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2026/04/01/innocent-...

andai 6 minutes ago||
Finally, I can blend in.
krunck 53 minutes ago||
These garments need to function in both visible and infrared environments as cameras use both. Otherwise these are not serious.
arjie 2 hours ago||
Face detection on the example images immediately focused on the right part and after that recognition becomes much easier when you crop out the rest. Not convinced. It’s a cool gimmick though. I like the MARPATish look of the black and white one.

The most effective socially acceptable mechanism is a burqa or COVID mask or motorcycle helmet sock.

rusk 2 hours ago|
As Phil Zimmerman might opine, it’s not so much about defying every attack, it’s moreso about making it more difficult en masse by increasing the unit cost. Though perhaps in the 90s surveillance tech wasn’t quite scaling as quickly as it is now.
focusedone 3 hours ago||
I hope designs like this become easier to purchase soon. It'd be fun to experiment with cameras I've got access to and I'd totally wear it out places on the weekend.

Totally get that it's a cat-and-mouse thing, but I don't mind making more work for the people trying to force this on us all.

layer8 2 hours ago|
At some point there might be a DMCA-like law that makes such adversarial clothing illegal.
pluc 1 hour ago|||
They've made covering your face illegal in lots of places before the pandemic made it obligatory. We had protests here where people wore masks and masks were swiftly banned. It's ok for police though.
idle_zealot 1 hour ago|||
I would expect it to be covered under any existing laws about circumventing security systems or impeding law enforcement. A more specific law would probably pass in this environment though.
stronglikedan 1 hour ago||
Works for cars, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znaA091_8-M
Fricken 32 minutes ago||
I'm pretty sure adversarial fashion hoodies are something you would only wear if your aim was to stand out. Porch thieves just pull their cap low and look at the ground while nicking your package.
Xmd5a 3 hours ago||
> statement logged. standing by.
andai 3 hours ago|
Excellent, this will allow me to disappear completely!
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