Top facial recognition algo joins the dots and sees pretend people

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He wasn't there again today, I do wish he would go away

 
25 Aug 2016 at 04:02, Richard Chirgwin How much like a face does an image have to be, to trick the standard Voila-Jones facial recognition algorithm? Not very much, it turns out.
 
Two researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have spoofed the algorithm into recognising a handful of dots, barely recognisable as an image, as a human face. Another image, more dense but still random, fooled the algorithm 97 per cent of the time even after it had been printed, and then scanned with a camera.
 
                
 

Look closely, because even the dots to the left pass the algorithm. Michael McCoyd and David Wagner
 
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