Recent Events #
- March 17, 2023: Lecture on computer vision, surveillance, and privacy at University of Michigan Ann Arbor (in person)
- March 21-22, 2023: Lecture and workshop at Carnegie Mellon University on AI, biometrics, and making art in the age of surveillance (in person)
Recent Essays #
Recent Press #
- Financial Times writes about VFRAME in Researchers train AI on ‘synthetic data’ to uncover Syrian war crimes
- Politiken.dk writes about face dataset research
- Artist profile in Frankfurter Allgemeine by Niklas Maak
- Economist writes about VFRAME: AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
- $ WSJ writes about VFRAME project and how AI emerges as Crucial Tool for Groups Seeking Justice for Syria War Crimes (paywall)
- NYT writes about Exposing.ai project: “ Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos.”
Featured Research #
VFRAME: 9N235 Detector High-performance submunition detector developed using VFRAME’s synthetic data rendering engine
Featured Essays #
Face Recognition Datasets and The Creative Commons License Problem How Creative Commons licenses are enabling and accelerating biometric surveillance technologies
Today’s Selfie Is Tomorrow’s Biometric Profile Commissioned by HMKV.de for the exhibition “House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm”
Featured Artwork #
Circular Diffusion Reflections on GANs, Climate Change, and Art. Commissioned by The New Real Observatory
Archive #
Researchers Gone Wild Art exhibit and research on AI information supply chains and biometric media obtained “in the wild” (2018-21)
Exposing.ai Interrogating biometric training datasets (2018-21)
DFACE.app Automatic, private, open-source face redaction web app (2021-2022)
Data Pools Zero-click Wi-Fi geolocation services exploit with Silicon Valley CEO geolocations (2018)
Think Privacy Privacy propaganda inspired by Facebook’s motivational posters (2016)
HyperFace Face decoy camouflage scarf (2016)
Stealth Wear Anti-Drone thermal signature reduction camouflage (2013)
CV Dazzle Camouflage against computer vision using makeup and hair styling (2010)