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I also change my facial hair style 4 times a year. Will start getting plastic surgery twice a year starting next year.

That's why I wear an rpi connected to four lcd's on my face that display randomly chosen beard tiles.

It's also why I started Our Lady of the Anonymity Pool where we gather for music and fellowship, and to recharge and distribute beard screens to our congregants and visitors.

Phillip K Dick imagined a "scramble suit" that did just that in a Scanner Darkly, continuously randomizing the users facial features.

This is currently possible in real time on consumer mobile hardware, looks neat

The film has a good representation of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aS4xhTaIPc

Against face recognition you could use CV dazzle makeup [1] to look less like a face. However I wouldn't recommend using that approach for your vehicle

1 https://dangerousminds.net/comments/foil_facebooks_facial_re...

I think that's actually quite common on new car models. The dazzle paint job makes it harder for the press to see the shape.

E.g.: https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/prototype-cars.html

I don't want my car "harder to see" going at 100 miles down the highway.

Oh no, it's super easy to see, just harder to tell if it's a coupe or a sedan or whatever. New lines in the body panels get drowned out by the pattern, etc.

I always wondered if this still worked with a IR/UV camera too...?

I vaguely recall reading (probably in the book All Corvettes Are Red) that the C5 Corvette was driven around with Camaro body panels to fool the media.

I wonder how the face painting antics of Death Metal bands would hold up to face recognition software?

Sorry for being pedantic, but it's usually Black Metal bands that wear the face paint that you're thinking of :)

I just inked an adversarial CV tattoo onto my face, worked great until that image leaked into the training data.

Should have tattooed a QR code that auto downloads a malware that bricks A100s.

sounds like a slippery slope to voluntary hip surgery for gait correction

I always wondered if this could be beat by putting a pebble in your shoe or something.

It’s been a long time since I read it but I think that’s exactly how it was beat in Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother.

Not sure if it's changed now, but just wearing flip flops used to defeat gait recognition...

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