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Using neural style transfer to avoid surveillance

by enderm on 12/14/21, 5:32 PM with 3 comments

• by Jerrrry on 12/14/21, 7:18 PM

  I was hoping it was a forum with automatic stylometric obfuscation / anti-word-fingerprinting.

  Not disappointed - this is even cooler, and the "avoiding photos because of consumption" is a vibe I jive with a lot. I've always thought AOL was ahead of its time with avatars - with profile pictures just being filters nowadays (neural -powered ones, even), the thought is ever more prescient.

• by coolspot on 12/14/21, 5:51 PM

  In my understanding, facial recognition is more about measuring distances between “landmarks”, such as eye-to-eye, nose-to-eyes, eyes-to-ears, etc.

  Style transfer mostly changes the texture of strokes/fill, so it shouldn’t affect face recognition much.