Facial recognition designed to detect around face masks is failing, study finds

[–] jobes 5 points (+5|-0)

Tinted face shields may be the way to go to avoid facial recognition. I know china deployed "gait tracking" technology to identify people by their movement patterns, but feels like that could be fooled by faking different limps every day.

[–] smallpond [OP] 4 points (+4|-0)

So we're at that point in human development where we need something like a ministry for silly walks.

[–] jobes 3 points (+3|-0)

Finally, all of my years of worshiping Python will pay off

[–] pembo210 1 points (+1|-0)

I like those hats that have infrared LEDs around the edge, blind the IR camera sensor

[–] pembo210 3 points (+3|-0)

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With all the millions of fashionable mask selfies flooding social media the last couple months, it'll have a nice verified dataset to learn from now. Lots of example shapes and patterns on known identities.

[–] Justintoxicated 0 points (+0|-0)

Luckily Dr. Fauci just recommended "Covid ski masks" and "social distancing crowbars".

Facial recognition designed to detect around face masks is failing, study finds

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