News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Psychedelic stickers that interfere with AI image recogni... by nopinsight on Sunday January 07, 2018 @11:10PM (#16094586)
It appears to me that this mostly fools whole-image classification algorithms. If the system performs object segmentation first and then applies classification to each object in the scene, this method is unlikely to be effective.

One can paste such a sticker on top of the face or other objects to be disguised and it might reduce recognition accuracy a bit, but applying some “paint-in” algorithms to fill in the blank covered by the sticker would basically remove its effect. That is unless it is used to cover some prominent features, although that is often unpractical in many circumstances.

Re:Psychedelic stickers that interfere with AI image recogni... by asdfaefasdf on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:05PM (#16101134)
This sticker only works against this classifier. If you start changing the algorithm, you'd need to change the attack to match.

If you think you can write a better image classifier by first segmenting the image before using ML, then I encourage you to get your own computer vision paper published and see how that works for you.