'Face stealing' cap uses infrared to fool facial recognition systems

A baseball cap that can fool facial recognition systems into think you're someone else has been developed by scientists. The face-stealing hat projects infrared light - which is invisible to the naked eye - onto your face to trick AI camera systems, which can see the spectrum. Researchers said the technology can not only obscure your identity but also'impersonate a different person to pass facial recognition-based authentication.' A baseball cap that can fool facial recognition systems into think you're someone else has been developed. They added that the face-stealing lights could easily be'hidden in an umbrella and possibly even hair or a wig.' Writing in the pre-publish journal ArXiv, the joint US and Chinese team, led by Dr Zhe Zhou of Fudan University in Shanghai, said: 'We propose a kind of brand new attack against face recognition systems, which is realised by illuminating the subject using infrared. 'Through launching this kind of attack, an attacker not only can dodge surveillance cameras.