First place in a Huawei innovation competition was won by students from Wuhan University in China by presenting a hardware that makes people “invisible” to artificial intelligence cameras.
At a cost of just $70, the InvisDefense cloak could form the basis for military applications, the researchers said in a university release.
Simply put, cameras can detect you but they can’t determine if you’re human.
The waterproof InvisDefense material is of course visible to the human eye, but contains hidden patterns that confuse human recognition algorithms during the day.
To conceal the wearer at night as well, the cloak is equipped with thermal blocks that confuse infrared cameras.
During tests with security cameras on campus, the cloak reduced the likelihood of detection by 57%.
Many tracking devices today can track the human body. Cameras on the road have a pedestrian recognition function and smart cars can recognize pedestrians, roads and obstacles.
InvisDefense allows the camera to record you but without realizing it’s a human.
A possible application is the creation of suits that will hide the user from the eyes of autonomous drones.
