Who: German design studio WertelOberfell
What: the Ignotum poncho
The idea: The agency developed together with technical partners, created the Ignotum poncho/ The AI Ignotum is about confusing artificial intelligences (AIs) that are used to analyse CCTV footage.
How:
The engineers used cameras with an integrated object detection algorithm MobileNetV2, trained with COCO dataset. They developed a digital mannequin and tested it with hundreds of clothing variations in a virtual environment.
The researchers then designed several real-world samples of costumes with LED ribbons. The result was a three-layer more cape with embedded technical components capable of reducing AI recognition accuracy under various conditions to the point where further image processing is impossible.
Materials and technologies:
Ignotum is designed in layers – the base layer, which gives it a basic stability, a semi-transparent second layer that creates in union with the base a moirée effect (to further enhance the AI confusion), and all interlaced with the technical components like power cables, PCBs, LEDs and light fibres.
Similar projects: none
Media of the project:
http://www.werteloberfell.com/project/ignotum-2/
https://www.instagram.com/werteloberfell/
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