Yarn Can Fool Facial Recognition
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Hackaday
A Swedish woman, Ottilia Westerlund, has created an anti-surveillance sweater using a knitting pattern that confuses certain facial detection systems. The pattern, based on the Hyperface design developed by Adam Harvey, presents a computer vision system with a number of "faces" to distract it from covered human faces in an image. However, the sweater is unsuccessful against neural network-based facial detection systems.