So the movement gait tracking would likely be impacted by this. Almost certainly.
Since it heavily relies on leg movements and stride distance, even wearing a pair of dazzle pants with a regular shirt could, in theory, do a decent job.
But not sure if there is any research on it. I’ll have to look into this.
As for painting the face in this pattern. It’s less likely to work. Because facial recognition looks for specific feature ratios and ignores the rest. (However wearing a mesh scarf covering the face (no eye holes,) with the pattern, would be successful). But any mesh pattern would do this.
Those geometric artistic face makeup guides you see are worthless. There is actual research on that.
They don’t work.
But what does work is altering the ratios of your eyes. Because that’s what facial recognition software mostly uses.
Wear sunglasses that also block infrared.
Easiest.
Wear colored contact lenses that expand the size of your iris. Quite a lot do. Especially costume ones. Average iris is around 9-11mm. Costume colored lenses range from 13-15mm. You can even get some that completely cover the whites of the eyes. Tho I hear they are uncomfortable.
Use makeup tricks to make your eyes look longer or taller. There are anime makeup tutorials that do just that.
Add age lines. Research shows that older faces and faces with age lines added with paint/makeup , really screw up recognition.
Be black. Recognition software has a lot of false matches for African Americans. Especially African American women.
We had a bank robbery on my town a while back, a guy with a hoodie, so it was tough to get a good look at his face.
They finally figured out that he was wearing a new type of mask made out of black stretchy material, with a face screen printed on the front of it, mostly celebrities. When put on, and disguised with a hoodie, it seems like it could fool facial rec pretty easily.
Banks be wondering how they keep getting robbed by Kobe Bryant. It would be a good thing to wear to a potentially violent rally.
Razzle dazzle camouflage!
I’m genuinely surprised so many people are familiar with this.
It’s something talked about in perception courses/classes.
The lines make it difficult for humans and machines to accurately gauge depth perception.
For humans it’s related to mach bands. And the way lateral inhibition works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_bands https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lateral_inhibition&wprov=rarw1
It’s the Internet. By now, a lot of people have seen photos of those striped WWII ships.
How useful would this stuff be at disguising yourself from surveillance?
Maybe if the stripes were across your face, nobody would notice you. I think the diagonal stripes would make your face look less fat.
So the movement gait tracking would likely be impacted by this. Almost certainly. Since it heavily relies on leg movements and stride distance, even wearing a pair of dazzle pants with a regular shirt could, in theory, do a decent job.
But not sure if there is any research on it. I’ll have to look into this.
As for painting the face in this pattern. It’s less likely to work. Because facial recognition looks for specific feature ratios and ignores the rest. (However wearing a mesh scarf covering the face (no eye holes,) with the pattern, would be successful). But any mesh pattern would do this.
Those geometric artistic face makeup guides you see are worthless. There is actual research on that.
They don’t work.
But what does work is altering the ratios of your eyes. Because that’s what facial recognition software mostly uses.
Wear sunglasses that also block infrared. Easiest.
Wear colored contact lenses that expand the size of your iris. Quite a lot do. Especially costume ones. Average iris is around 9-11mm. Costume colored lenses range from 13-15mm. You can even get some that completely cover the whites of the eyes. Tho I hear they are uncomfortable.
Use makeup tricks to make your eyes look longer or taller. There are anime makeup tutorials that do just that.
Add age lines. Research shows that older faces and faces with age lines added with paint/makeup , really screw up recognition.
Be black. Recognition software has a lot of false matches for African Americans. Especially African American women.
We had a bank robbery on my town a while back, a guy with a hoodie, so it was tough to get a good look at his face.
They finally figured out that he was wearing a new type of mask made out of black stretchy material, with a face screen printed on the front of it, mostly celebrities. When put on, and disguised with a hoodie, it seems like it could fool facial rec pretty easily.
Banks be wondering how they keep getting robbed by Kobe Bryant. It would be a good thing to wear to a potentially violent rally.