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Matthias Urlichs • December 10, 2024 7:20 AM
They don’t survive in-person scrutinity, but video cameras? no contest. Maybe if you zoom directly to the face with HD video.
wiredog • December 10, 2024 8:51 AM
Considering that the (alleged) ceo killer fooled all the face recognition both AI and human with a surgical mask, and only got ID’d because he took it off, once, in a taxi, it seems a surgical mask would be Good Enough.
Now if you could get custom face masks of this type you could arrange for someone else to get ID’d. Generate lots of false positives in the system.
DaveX • December 10, 2024 10:38 AM
In the sales lit, they also mention that they work like headbands or hats, so you could wear it bunched it up for immediate deployment or storage.
Trevor • December 10, 2024 10:59 AM
They will also confound automated camera surveillance quite easily. I suspect it won’t be difficult to train a NN to recognize them as a mask but that won’t help identify the person.
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