Invisible sweater: scientists have created a special print on clothing that “breaks” AI systems for recognizing people

University of Maryland staff and students have designed a special sweater to help

fool cameras with AI human recognition systems.

How it works?

The initial goal of the developers was to checkmachine learning systems for the presence of vulnerabilities. The result is a unique (but not very cute) print on clothing, which is not visible to cameras with artificial intelligence.

To do this, experts used a data setSOSO, on which the computer vision algorithm YOLOv2 is trained, identified a pattern that helps to recognize a person, created the opposite pattern and converted it into an image - a print on a sweater. As a result, the owner of such a sweater can hide from detection systems.

This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI.

It uses “adversarial patterns” to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it. pic.twitter.com/aJ8LlHixvX

— Morning Brew (@MorningBrew) October 25, 2022

“This stylish sweater is a great way to stay warm.this winter. It features a waterproof microfleece lining, a modern cut, and AI-fighting patterns to help you evade object detectors. In our demonstration, the YOLOv2 detector was fooled using a template trained on the COCO dataset with a carefully constructed target,” note the researchers.

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