Can Anti-Surveillance Makeup Protect Protesters from Facial Recognition Software? ~ L.A. TACO

Can Anti-Surveillance Makeup Protect Protesters from Facial Recognition Software? ~ L.A. TACO

Known as Computer Vision Dazzle, or CV Dazzle, this abstract style of makeup was created by artist and researcher Adam Harvey for his 2010 master's thesis at NYU. While traditional camo is designed as a disruptive pattern meant to hide the wearer from the human eye, CV Dazzle was created to break machine vision systems.  The name comes from “Dazzle,” a type of camouflage on battleships in WWI and WWII that used complex patterns of contrasting ge…