A lot of masks only work in the visible light spectrum. It’s entirely possible to “radar” images and remove them.
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoSince they’re typically masked, I’d like to see gait recognition serve the working class for once.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
oh good my phone is set up for that?
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No. Most cameras have filters to cut non-visible light.
And any EM that passes through a mask is probably going to pass through flesh too. And any EM that’s transmitted and not reflected means it can’t be imaged by a sensor.
Very thin fabric, like a thin white T-shirt, can be transparent to IR in bright sunlight. But that’s a fairly rare case.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I was thinking this too! Gait recognition can completely bypass facial coverings as a means of identification, but I also don't think it'll be much help here.
Gait recognition can be bypassed by things as simple as putting a rock in your shoe so you walk differently, so when you think about how much extra heavy gear, different shoes, and different overall movement patterns ICE agents will possibly be engaging in, it might not hold up well at tracking them down, especially since to recognize someone by gait, you'd need footage of them that you can already identify them in, to then train the model on.
In the case of fucklapd.com, this was easy because they could just get public record data for headshot photos, but there isn't a comparable database with names directly tied to it for gait. I will say though, a lot of these undercover agents might be easier to track by gait since they'll still generally be wearing more normal attire, and it might be more possible to associate them with who they are outside of work since it's easier to slip up when you're just wearing normal clothes.