Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face
[Philip Lelyveld comment; I've been thinking of designs for a westernized hijab to also defeat facial recognition. So far I can't get past his problem of it being to attention-getting to actual people while defeating the algorithms.]
Because here is the essence of CV dazzle’s strangeness: The very thing that makes you invisible to computers makes you glaringly obvious to other humans. During one of my more successful dazzle outings, if someone had happened to snap my picture and post it to Facebook, it would have seemed like just another object to the sensors, and, actually, less than that—a set of pixels, indistinguishable from the morass of pixels around it. An algorithm looking for a face would have passed it by.
But to a human spectator—whether in person or looking at those pixels—CV dazzle made my face highly visible. Perhaps even unforgettable.
See the full article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/07/makeup/374929/?curator=MediaREDEF