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Doesn't defeat the face detection in libccv:

http://imgur.com/HNPBNTJ

http://imgur.com/P3XnlwK

Edit - I don't mean to kill interesting conversations around this, but be aware we're looking at an implementation that simply doesn't work, so we should only really be talking about similar but different possible approaches. Anything like this is so fundamentally flawed as to not even currently work against currently used algorithms.

So if we want to go down that road, what more extreme things might we need to do?



The article does not claim that the glasses prevent face detection. It claims that they prevent face recognition. These two concepts are different.

Face detection - determine the location of a face or faces in an image.

Face recognition - given a location of a face in an image, correctly predict who's face it is.

Check out the OpenCV Facial Recognition Tutorial for more info: http://docs.opencv.org/modules/contrib/doc/facerec/facerec_t...


> The article does not claim that the glasses prevent face detection.

Their first image seems to be showing the difference between detecting and not detecting a face ("Facebook detects a face" and "No face detected").

Comments like this, too:

"They claim to break face detection when the lights are on."

So I assumed they were claiming it breaks face detection.




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