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"INVISIBILITY SUIT" MAKES YOU VANISH ON AI SECURITY CAMERAS

A team of graduate students at China’s Wuhan University recently unveiled an innovative “invisibility suit” that defeats AI-powered security cameras.

China is one of the world’s most heavily monitored countries, with AI-powered cameras used for everything from spying on users’ toilet habits to students’ class behavior. But as advanced as these surveillance systems may be, they are not perfect.

A group of Chinese graduate students recently showed a remarkable invention that, they claim, is essentially an invisibility protection against security cameras powered by artificial intelligence.

Called “InvisDefense,” the normal-looking camouflage suit supposedly allows anyone wearing it to walk past AI-powered cameras without being identified. The customized print pattern fools the cameras during the day, and embedded thermal devices that emit different temperatures throw off the cameras’ infrared imaging sensors at night.

“We spent a lot of effort preparing this, including this product’s design and development,” Wei Hui, the computer-science graduate student who designed the suit’s core algorithm, said. “We had to use an algorithm to design the least conspicuous image that would render the camera’s vision ineffective.”

The students, who won first prize at the Huawei Cup, a cybersecurity innovation contest supported by Chinese technological giant Huawei, said that one of the biggest challenges of the InvisDefense project was creating a system that could fool both the human and the AI eye. To do this, they worked extensively on devising custom camouflage patterns.

While InvisDefense sounds like a way to fight against the Chinese government’s oppressive security camera network, Wei Hui and his colleagues made it very clear that their invention is just the opposite.

“The fact that security cameras cannot detect the InvisDefense coat means that they are flawed,” the young inventor said. “We are working on this project to stimulate the improvement of existing machine-vision technology by finding its weaknesses.”

Interestingly, the InvisDefense coat costs only 500 yuan (USD$71), which is a ridiculously cheap way of defeating China’s state-of-the-art surveillance systems.

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