This Filter Makes Your Photos Indecipherable to Facial Recognition Software

guest · Jun 3, 2018

This Filter Makes Your Photos Indecipherable to Facial Recognition Software
June 1, 2018
https://futurism.com/filter-photos-facial-recognition-software/

To help people hold onto (whatever remains of) their privacy, tools have emerged intended to trip up facial recognition AI. Real-world products like “Face Off Hats” (that’s a physical hat with a trippy pattern) and 3D-printed masks fool face-scanning software by presenting optical illusions to the cameras we encounter during our everyday lives.

Soon, there may be a filter to keep AI from spotting your face those photos that slip past.

Engineers from the University of Toronto have built a filter that slightly alters photos of people’s faces to keep facial recognition software from realizing what its looking at. The AI-driven filter looks for specific facial features and changes certain pixels. People can barely see a difference, but any AI scanning the image can’t even tell that it’s looking at a face.
This probably isn’t the kind of filter likely to pop up on Instagram, especially since Instagram’s parent company, Facebook, is storing your intimate, personal selfies to make sure no one else uploads them. But the engineers who developed this filter hope to release it via an app in the near future.
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Adversarial Attacks on Face Detectors using Neural Net based Constrained Optimization: https://joeybose.github.io/assets/adversarial-attacks-face.pdf

mirimir · Jun 3, 2018

There's a great filter. It's called "no camera"

RollingThunder · Jun 4, 2018

mirimir said: ↑

There's a great filter. It's called "no camera"
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Yeah, walk out of your house and try to avoid the "no camera". For that matter we bring these Google and Amazon personal assistants into our homes. We put a webcam on our TV sets. We don't put electrical tape over the laptop webcam. We allow open mics in our house. So not only do we have no privacy on the street we willingly give up privacy in the home under the auspice of convenience.

mirimir · Jun 4, 2018

Sure, meatspace me is on camera a lot. But I'm just doing normal stuff. Nothing special there. But nothing with camera or mic is allowed in my office. And my VM hosts also have no cameras nor mics.

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