December 13, 2019 06:44 pm
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020575/china-facial-recognition-terminals-fooled-3d-mask-kneron-research-fallibility
Researchers fooled Chinese facial recognition terminals with just a mask
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Facial recognition has been heralded as a secure way to confirm your identity on your phone or at payment terminals, and with features like Face ID on your iPhone, it sometimes seems like the tech really is more secure than other options. But the tech isn’t infallible, as public facial recognition terminals can still be fooled with just a mask, as some recent experiments have shown.
An AI company, Kneron, shared a video with The Verge of tests it ran at facial recognition terminals in China where it appeared to fool the systems. Kneron asked us not to publish the video, so we will describe what we saw — and it looked pretty convincing. In two examples, a tester approaches AliPay and WeChat terminals at shops in China while wearing a 3D...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020575/china-facial-recognition-terminals-fooled-3d-mask-kneron-research-fallibility
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
The Verge
The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011More About this Source Visit The Verge