AI software tool disables automated facial tracking

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As privacy + security concerns increase, artificial intelligence finds solutions.

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Engineering researchers at the University of Toronto, in Canada โ€” used AI software programs to design a privacy filter for your photos that disables automatic facial recognition systems.

Each time you upload a photo or video to a social media platform, its automated, digital facial recognition systems learn a little more about you. These algorithms ingest data about who you are, your location, and people you know โ€” and theyโ€™re constantly improving.

As concerns over privacy + data security on social networks grow, Univ. of Toronto engineering researchers โ€” led by Parham Aarabi PhD and graduate student Avishek Bose โ€” have created a computer software algorithm to dynamically disrupt facial recognition systems.

What is facial recognition?

A facial recognition system is a tech capable of identifying a human face โ€” found in a digital photo, graphic image, or in a video frame โ€” and then matching it against a data-base of stored faces. The most advanced tech can be used to authenticate people through ID verification services โ€” it can pinpoint + measure detailed, distinct facial features in an image. The process of measuring human physical characteristics is called bio-metrics.

Face recognition is commonly used on smart-phones and in robotics. Its accuracy as a bio-metric tech is lower than iris recognition, vein pattern recognition, voiceprint + fingerprint recognition. But itโ€™s widely used because itโ€™s contact-less and non-invasive, especially for video surveillance and automatically indexing images.


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paper title:ย Adversarial attacks on face detectors using neural net based constrained optimization
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Facial recognition gets better + better.

Parham Aarabi PhD said: โ€œPersonal privacy is a real issue as facial recognition becomes better + better. This is one way beneficial anti-facial-recognition systems can combat that ability.โ€

Their solution leverages a deep learning technique called adversarial training, which pits 2 AI algorithms against each other. In computing, deep learning is a math technique that uses complex sets of data โ€” trained to find solutions to problems โ€” to process information. Inspired by the biology of human thinking, deep learning helps computers quickly recognize and process images + speech. Like all techniques in the computer software field of AI โ€” deep learning is good at recognizing hard-to-find patterns in big data-sets.

Computer systems called neural networks run AI software that can achieve astounding human-level abilities of pattern recognition. With their deep learning algorithms, they can process in seconds what takes human analysts weeks, months, or years.

A neural network uses a series of deep learning algorithms to recognize underlying relationships in a set of data through a process that mimics human reasoning. The researchers harnessed the power of neural networks to engineer a system that could block automated facial recognition.

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