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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-you-see-what-I-see? dept.

Image recognition technology may be sophisticated, but it is also easily duped. Researchers have fooled algorithms into confusing two skiers for a dog, a baseball for espresso, and a turtle for a rifle. But a new method of deceiving the machines is simple and far-reaching, involving just a humble sticker.

Google researchers developed a psychedelic sticker that, when placed in an unrelated image, tricks deep learning systems into classifying the image as a toaster. According to a recently submitted research paper about the attack, this adversarial patch is "scene-independent," meaning someone could deploy it "without prior knowledge of the lighting conditions, camera angle, type of classifier being attacked, or even the other items within the scene." It's also easily accessible, given it can be shared and printed from the internet.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @03:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @03:05AM (#620781)
    Yeah, I mean if you had to pick a SINGLE item of what the photo was about, you might not say banana and say "shiny sticker" instead.

    Heck if you only gave two choices like banana or toaster, many humans might select toaster for "reasons".
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