Glasses that ‘block’ facial recognition technology to launch in 2016

[Reefa]

State-of-the-art glasses that prevent facial recognition technology from capturing images of people will be available for purchase in Japan from June next year, it has been revealed.

Developed by researchers at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, the pioneering glasses come equipped with special lenses that are designed to reflect and absorb light in such a way that it prevents cameras from registering the wearer’s profile.

The glasses, dubbed the Privacy Visor, will provisionally cost around ¥30,000 (approximately $240).

Tests carried out by researchers at the institute found that the devices are able to disrupt the recognition capabilities of facial recognition software 90 per cent of the time.

Its principal designer, Isao Echizen, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that the Privacy Visor is “the world’s first product with this technology.”

The inspiration behind the glasses, the expert explained, is to help ordinary people preserve their anonymity in an age where facial recognition technology is so ubiquitous, many are unaware that their image is being captured.

Prof Echizen added: “We are often told not to unveil our personal information to others, but our faces are also a type of an ID. There should be a way to protect that.”

Prototypes of the state-of-the-art wearable tech were first announced at the end of 2012.

These devices came with 11 near-infrared LED lights, which, when activated, prevented facial recognition software from recognising that the subject was in fact a person.

However, while the technology was effective, it was somewhat clunky and poorly designed. The latest version is slimmer, more stylish and in place of the LED lights is a unspecified material that is built directly into the glasses lenses.

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/08/10/glasses-block-facial-recognition-technology-launch-2016/

[Reefa]

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[AlexCross]

Did anyone studied face detection/recognition? I love internet, these so called scientists that barely know how turn of their PC's talk about face recognition like it's 1+1=2. Face recognition has poor results, because in order to do face recognition you have to do face detection which is poor aswell, but the problem Is that in order to do a proper face recognition you have to have a database and not a simple one, to create this type of database it requires such resourses that with today's techonolgy is almost imposible (Facebook creates and sell such databases) The other problem why face detection isn't working is the algorithms that are used work only in some conditions.

Here's what the most advanced algorithm can do:

This algorithm was modified and optimized as hell and as you can see it still detects faces where it shouldn't. Also the eye detection is as poor as it can get, as you can see it detected only one eye.

So yeah I don't think that we really need these glasses, at least not this soon.

Why? In order to detect eyes, the pictures need to be taken by some cameras that aren't quite affordable. The other problem is that the picture that this type of cameras can make has ~ +400 MB, only 1 picture, so It isn't cheap to store a big amount of this type of pictures that wil make the algorithms to do their job with an amazing precision.

Here is a better picture:

It found 3 eyes. And this Is face/eye detection imagine that recognition is a job that requires an amazing amount of work compared to detection.

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