Fashion fights facial recognition systems via garish make-up, face-printed T-shirts, punk hair extensions

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Fashion fights facial recognition systems via garish make-up, face-printed

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In a world of ubiquitous closed-circuit television cameras and facial recognition software, lipstick, blusher and garish face paint can shield us from some of the world’s most sophisticated surveillance technology.
Computer Vision Dazzle – or CV Dazzle – was created by Berlin-based artist Adam Harvey in 2010, when the idea of citywide facial recognition camera networks and deep fake technology existed only in the realm of science fiction.
Harvey has spent the past decade proving that thick, pigment-rich make-up painted in shapes across the face – with flourishes and swirls reminiscent of Pablo Picasso artworks – can prevent most facial-recognition algorithms accessing the wearer’s biometric profile.
Facial recognition algorithms look for patterns of light and darkness across the forehead, cheekbones and chin, and the way colour is distributed across the face.
Harvey has now trained a group of make-up artists to perfectly disguise their clients, but anyone can use these techniques to obscure the symmetry, complexion tone, and skin texture of their own faces.
In simple terms, that means applying make-up that contrasts with your natural skin tone and using primary colours at the point where the nose, eyes, and forehead intersect, as this is the area facial recognition cameras rely on.
“The aim of the project is to overload an algorithm with what it wants, oversaturating an area with faces to divert the gaze of the computer vision algorithm,” Harvey said at a conference in Hamburg, Germany, last year.
Last month, a group of artists in London known as The Dazzle Club walked around the British capital with primary-coloured stripes painted across their faces in an effort not only to escape the cameras that are so ubiquitous in London – the sixth most-watched city on Earth – but also to publicise their cause

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