I designed a hoodie that makes you unrecognizable to night-vision security cameras.
I designed a hoodie that makes you unrecognizable to night-vision security cameras.
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If you’d like to make your own, a full open-source design package with schematics, reference photos, and a detailed assembly guide can be found here – [https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie](https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie)
That’s interesting.
Nice idea, but why embed it instead of just making a collar? That way you can put it over anything you’re wearing.
Nice!
So it’s just a piece of jewelery with a super bright flashing IR LED? Neat. You should update the flashing pattern to include the “off” codes for TVs.
But wouldn’t they be able to grab a frame with your face on it from in between the flashes?
“I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf mutes”
You are the laughing man (but only at night) 😂
This is really cool
This is some @GreatDismal shit — I love it ! :DD
Let me get one I’ll put it to the real test 😎
There are plenty of variants on this concept going back a good decade or two. They rely on a given security camera having the right combination of adaptive exposure control and adaptive exposure control response time of just the right speed. Per-frame or very fast exposure control will adapt to the bright emitters helpfully clearly illuminating your face fast enough to capture your face during the illumination interval. Slow adaptive exposure response times will not respond by the time the active interval ends, and be correctly exposed to capture your unilluminated face. High dynamic range sensors (as are becoming more common in higher end security cameras) are just flat out immune to this sort of attack without pumping tens to hundreds of watts through the LED array.
It’s a great idea in theory, but pulling the hoodie further down your face is more universally effective at all sensor wavelength and against all camera framerates and exposure controls (and against any mk.1 Eyeball observers).
Not recommended for situations where you’re trying to be unrecognizable *and* avoid being noticed by a bored security guard staring at a bank of monitors.
This would trigger my AI detection or alarms instantly and quite severely, id either get woken up or my notifications would go mad. I work in the security industry.
What about going the other way? Can’t you completely absorb the IR somehow? even enough, if you could reduce it down to a black shadow or patch, I don’t think it’d pick it up that much. I’m pretty sure that’s what modern army uniforms use.
That’s very very cool. They don’t have any red output? Some of the brighter infared LEDs I’ve worked with have been slighty visible to the naked eye, probably because they’re cheap and they’re doing some black body radiation or something.
Awesome
Why are people always trying to find ways to be a better criminal? Use that brain of yours for good. Help people. Stop trying to find ways to hurt others.
And, before you all jump to defend. What other use would it actually benefit?
Super cool, Thank you
Would that safety vest material absorb enough light as an alternative? I have been thinking of building something like this myself.
Great tool for thieves looking to avoid security cameras.
As a Trade Tech. That has been robbed on multiple occasions, this just makes it all that much harder for me to protect what is mine.
Great idea for privacy protection in places like London Eng, but again, why do you need to hide your identity from IR based cams.
People will absolutely buy these. Please make sure you have patented your designs, and Trade-marked your ideas.
Pro: They won’t see your face.
Contra: They will see you coming from a mile away.
Wouldn’t it be better to rotate which one of the bright infrared lights are on so you have a rotating strobe effect while also maintaining a source of light that blocks the camera’s ability to see your face?
This style, though more focused around the hoodie IIRC was in the show Luther from many years ago. No disrespect for you OP if you came up with idea yourself tho.
I’ve wanted to get one of those Craftsman caps with the lights in the bill to do something like this.
Thought it was Logan Lerman for a second.
What if you have different LEDs pulsating opposite of the others? That way there is a constant flash to keep your face from being exposed between blinks?
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In true cyberpunk fashion; corporate overlords already have ways to defeat this. It’s just a matter of time before they become widespread. e.g. Sony’s IMX490 CMOS sensor; would be able to see right through that if configured correctly
(source: working in a research industry that uses this stuff)
I’ll wait for Gibson’s Ugliest Shirt surveillance armor.