00:00Can Makeup Fool Advanced Facial Recognition System?
00:03Indian actress Richa Chaddha recently uploaded a makeup tutorial to her ex-account
00:07to help protesters dodge facial recognition systems.
00:11Her hack, concealing eyebrows, drawing extra facial features and using colored patterns
00:16to camouflage their skin.
00:17AI-linked facial recognition systems have been widely used to identify protesters
00:22in the ongoing protests in India.
00:25But how does facial recognition work?
00:27The software analyzes your facial features and turns them into a unique digital code
00:33or facial embedding with AI.
00:35Then it checks that code against a database to find a match.
00:38So, could Chaddha's method really confuse facial recognition system?
00:42A 2021 study analyzing software-generated makeup patterns found that they could consistently
00:48bypass state-of-the-art facial recognition software.
00:51Makeup can make detection harder, but it's not an invisibility clock.
00:55And more importantly, modern AI systems use advanced neural networks to analyze facial geometry.
01:01What do you think?
01:02Let us know in the comments.
