This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras
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Artist Simon Weckert demonstrated a “digital camouflage” shirt that makes AI surveillance cameras stop detecting a person when the patterned garment is worn. The shirt was tested by installing YOLO on his own camera and using iterations until the algorithm’s output no longer identified the wearer as a person with 100% confidence. As a result, the project provides a practical way to evade at least some YOLO-based object recognition while also pushing people to protest AI surveillance and prompting updates whenever new YOLO versions appear.