Image Recognition
Facial recognition’s latest foe: Italian knitwearAt first glance, the sweater looks like something from The Cosby Show: colorful swirls, crazy textures, a sort of abstract collage of greens, reds, yellows. But his knitwear has a secret mission: fooling facial recognition software. She is trying to create a blind spot in those all-seeing facial recognition systems that have become a fixture for surveilling public spaces the world over. They were talking about how much facial recognition software was expanding and whether they might do something to address it. As the market for facial recognition technology booms, so does an industry working to subvert it.