Reverse-engineering artist busts face detection tech

hunter

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:08 PM
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Reverse-engineering artist busts face detection tech

Reverse-engineering artist busts face detection tech

Hacking Big Brother with help from Revlon

By Dan Goodin

Concerned about the proliferation of face recognition systems in public places, a grad student in New York is developing privacy-enhancing hacks designed to thwart the futuristic surveillance technology.

Using off-the-shelf makeup and accessories such as glasses, veils, and artificial hair, Adam Harvey's master's thesis combines hipster fashion aesthetics with hardcore reverse engineering of face detection software. The goal: to give individuals a low-cost and visually stimulating means to prevent their likenesses from being detected and cataloged by face-recognition monitors.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/face_detection_hacking
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I'm sorta looking forward to this new practical style of makeup!

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HopeHoops

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:10 PM
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1. Excuse: "My mom was goth and my dad was a NFL linebacker."

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KittyWampus

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:17 PM
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5. and my obsession is with the Phantom of the Opera.

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HopeHoops

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:22 PM
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6. Having an iPod loaded with the complete Marylin Manson collection is a plus.

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hunter

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:29 PM
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7. Star Trek Episode 70, Let That be your Last Battlefield

What might have been had they not destroyed one another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield

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mitchum

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:14 PM
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2. "Somebody backstage told me that you people like to drink vodka and orange juice!!!"

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Richard Steele

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:16 PM
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3. She doesn't know she's a replicant, does she? nm

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librechik

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Fri Apr-23-10 12:16 PM
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4. A Clockwork Orange

Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 12:26 PM by librechik

comes to mind

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