AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated | WIRED

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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated

Hackers can train artificial neural networks to recognize objects, read text, and even identify faces in obfuscated images.

via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits of standard content-masking techniques like blurring and pixelation by learning to read or see what’s meant to be hidden in images—anything from a blurred house number to a pixelated human face in the background of a photo