Developed a new weapon against surveillance

Now in the big city is almost no space left which would have been out of sight of one or more cameras — the police and municipal cameras on the streets and squares, private surveillance systems in shops and cafes, car DVRs, camera phones, and soon Google Glass and other similar devices — often in our direction can see from many lenses at one time. Combine this with face detection in social networks and modern system of video Analytics — will say that almost every step is recorded and analyzed.
Isao Echizen, Professor of Tokyo national University of Informatics and Seiichi Goshi, Professor Tokyo Kogakuin suggested to wear glasses with built infrared LEDs. Their light is invisible to the eye, but most cameras is quite sensitive in the near infrared range. Included LEDs make it difficult to recognize faces or even turn it into a vague spot of light.





Adam Harvey took the idea of camouflage in the military. Similar contrast camouflage was used during the First world war — wide black and white stripes literally "break" the silhouette of a military ship, not giving a right to understand their type, size, and orientation.

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Perhaps worse of all approached the question of new York-based artist and hacker Adam Harvey in his project CV Dazzle. With the help of the OpenCV library and scripts in Java and Processing, he chose several types of hairstyles and makeup that make the job of pattern recognition algorithms. He used sharp contrast lines and spots that or cut the person to pieces, or create a "false target" for algorithms.

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