The cloak is not actually a cloak, but a camouflage t-shirt designed to defeat the latest facial recognition technology installed in China.
The coat, called ‘InvisDefense’, although visible to the human eye, can blind cameras during the day and “send abnormal heat signals at night” to avoid detection by infrared cameras, according to the report.
A group of Chinese students has invented a low-cost concept cloak that can apparently hide human bodies from security cameras, monitored by artificial intelligence.
According to SCMP, the work of these graduate students has also been awarded the first prize in a competition by Huawei Technologies Company. Professor Wang Zheng of Wuhan University, who oversaw the project, told SCMP, “The camera captures the person’s presence, but they can’t see it. To tell if it’s a human Is.”
“Nowadays, many surveillance devices can detect human remains. Street cameras have pedestrian detection functions and smart cars can identify pedestrians, roads, and obstacles. Our InvisDefense The camera captures you, but it cannot tell that you are human.
The coat has a specially designed camouflage pattern on its surface that helps it confuse the devices’ identification algorithms. At night, when the cameras detect thermal energy or heat emission and convert it into an electrical signal, the cloak creates an unusual temperature pattern to fool him.
According to the Ph.D. student on the team who worked on the underlying algorithm, “The hardest part is balancing the camouflage pattern. Traditionally, researchers used bright images to interfere with machine vision and it worked. But this is standing out to the human eye, the user, and also highlights.”
The complete InvisDefense set costs about $70 and includes the cost of printing the pattern plus the four temperature control modules, which the team says are affordable. The team hopes the cloak will prove its usefulness during “anti-drone combat or human-machine encounters on the battlefield.”
