• daannii@lemmy.world
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    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.

    1. Wear sunglasses that also block infrared. Easiest.

    2. 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.

    3. Use makeup tricks to make your eyes look longer or taller. There are anime makeup tutorials that do just that.

    4. Add age lines. Research shows that older faces and faces with age lines added with paint/makeup , really screw up recognition.

    5. Be black. Recognition software has a lot of false matches for African Americans. Especially African American women.

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      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.

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        Also I just had an idea. Jncos. Y’all remember those big ass wide pants?

        I bet it’s pretty difficult for accurate gait measurements to be taken from pants that swim around you.
        Be like wearing a big fluffy skirt.

        We could bring back jncos!

        Think of the pocket space! Don’t you miss being able to carry a small laptop in your back pocket? I do.

        Add a dazzle pattern on them and you are basically invisible.

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        14 hours ago

        Yeah I’ve seen those and they certainly would.

        Get yourself a Elon Musk one to wear for any mayhem activities.

        Pdiddy

        Epstein

        Ghislaine Maxwell

        Love to get one of kkkaroline

        Pam bondi

        Steve Miller.

        Mike johnson.

        Have your pick

        Kinda like how the Boston tea party did by dressing up as natives except without the racism.

        It’s not a bad tactic.

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          Kinda like how the Boston tea party did by dressing up as natives except without the racism.

          Since you brought up racism: The point is to keep the cops from identifying you with facial rec, so doesn’t it make sense for a white person to wear a mask of a black person, and vice versa? Or is it bad to fool the cops into blaming a black person for a white person’s crimes? What if the mask is of a black celebrity? Nobody would believe that it was really that celebrity anyway.

          Or maybe a white person should just wear a white person mask.