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An artificial intelligence service company has launched a service of celebrity face data recognition system: paying $4000, you get your specified, can be collected in public or in the media of 3000 celebrity face information database, and through a large number of celebrity face data training algorithms. The algorithm is trained by vector mapping the extracted face features, and the SVM classifier uses the obtained feature vectors, which can be used to make star identity judgments.
British Sky News was the first entertainment media to use such a service, using this facial recognition technology in the live broadcast of Prince Harry’s wedding. It allows viewers with “face blindness” to identify 600 guests in a second. At the bottom of the day’s live page will be a personal introduction of the guests, and on the right side will be the list of guests who have already arrived.

Threat of face recognition to celebrity privacy

With second-level response and fast and accurate recognition effect under GPU, it can quickly and accurately identify stars and their names in the hidden crowd, and can be used to assist in uninterrupted 24-hour monitoring and finding of stars’ whereabouts in hotels, airports, shopping malls, streets and other public places. The users of the system will be interested in the whereabouts of stars, dog teams, entertainment journalists, avid fans, etc. The key point of celebrity face recognition, which is a major difficulty in face recognition, is that the faces of celebrities before and after makeup vary tremendously. This service can identify which of the database female celebrities the photos after makeup belong to.

Celebrities are also beneficiaries of face recognition technology

After achieving fame, stars often suffer from “excessively passionate” fans, aka stalkers.After numerous harassment from such people, US singer Taylor Swift secretly played a trump card of the 21st century, facial recognition technology, in the hope of identifying those who are following her everywhere.

Stalkers are a generally scary phenomenon and it is understandwable that stars like Taylor Swift would take such an action. However, she did it without the concent of her other normal fans, or even those who are just passing by. It is also unknown how and where the data collected by her team without authorization will be used.

In nowadays society, even walking on a street casually may expose your privacy.The field of facial recognition technology is in a wild west where law is missing. The awareness is much stronger towards privacy protection at abroad. The public is in uproar after the exposure of Taylor’s practice. And she has been staying silent to all news reports. In the meantime, Relevant organizations are further pressuring the US government to issue laws and regulations in this field.

How did Taylor Swift use the facial recognition system?

Taylor Swift held a concert with a facial recognition surveillance system at Rose Bowl in California, USA. So who was the target of this system? –Swift’s stalker. It is understood that the facial recognition system was installed in a showroom displaying her rehearsal set, and it would secretly record the facial expressions of the viewers.A concert security expert told the media that visitors are immediately scanned as they watch. The data is then transmitted to a “command center” in Nashville, Tennessee, where it is compared to Swift’s database of known stalkers.

No American artist has ever been exposed for using facial recognition technology at a concert before. Yet such a practice is not illegal because the concert itself is a private event, so event organizers can conduct almost any kind of surveillance on the attendees of this event.Swift’s security measures may be considered extreme, but this is definitely not the first time that facial recognition technology has been used against unwanted participants at such an event.

Can ordinary Sunglasses prevent face recognition?

In front of the early surveillance equipment, people wearing glasses posed challenges to face detection and face recognition software. Glasses, especially Sunglasses with reflective function, may hinder the general algorithm to find the required reference point in the face photos. Face detection and / or recognition products from different companies and products use different algorithms. Many of these early algorithms do recognize people. Wearing transparent glasses usually does not cause problems for face detection and recognition software, because key eye details are still visible. Even if they do cause some form of problem, the software will continue to examine the rest of the face with visible light. It is not uncommon that faces are still detected and recognized.

However, when people wear dark or shiny sunglasses, especially those with hidden eyes, the best algorithms in the world still have difficulties. When glasses cover or hide the distance between eyes, the problem becomes more complicated, and eyes are the key part of many algorithms. Most face recognition algorithms first identify eye features and compare them with pre-existing image databases before they enter other facial features. But all this was limited to the early single visible light device. Now, in the world, the combination of visible and infrared perspective monitoring equipment has been widely used.

Ordinary sunglasses in front of the monitoring device can not easily prevent the capture of face information. Except for special privacy sunglasses.