[liberationtech] Wearing a mask won’t stop facial recognition anymore

[Katana]

Hi Yosem,

Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

>New forms of facial recognition can now recognize not just people
>wearing masks over their mouths, but also people in scarves and even
>with fake beards.

and
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-surveillance-idUSKBN2011HO>
02.07.20
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/how-china-built-facial-recognition-for-people-wearing-masks/>
03.18.20
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202004/innovatrics-says-facial-recognition-works-with-masks-adds-trust-score-to-biometric-onboarding-toolkit>
04.07.20

I think, it started with the Hong Kong riots.

But
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04683>: "Invisible Mask: Practical Attacks
on Face Recognition with Infrared" or
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.07067>: "On adversarial patches: real-world
attack on ArcFace-100 face recognition system" and other/new forms of
face obfuscation "Scanner Darkly" methods ;)


-- 
Katana