Comments on: Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras

By: Landscape photography

Landscape photography — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:28:08 +0000

Haha this is pretty funny but interesting. They can actually use artificial intelligence to compare the caracteristics of the face using neural Networks. i’ve been doing some kind of image processing in Uni using this kind of technology, pretty promissing, but not perfect…

By: 20080716 - Adam Crowe

20080716 - Adam Crowe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:00:51 +0000

[...] Pink Tentacle — Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras “… he soon discovered that the machines equipped with face-recognition cameras would let him buy cigarettes when he held up a 15-centimeter (6-in) wide magazine photo of a man who looked to be in his 50s.” facialrecognition camera hacks [...]

By: High-Tech Face Scanning Vending Machine Foiled by Bruce Willis (photo) | Webism Today

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:04:30 +0000

[...] measures following the September 11th attacks – it just doesn’t work! This has been demonstrated by a reporter for Sankei Sports who discovered how easily the high-tech machines could be fooled [...]

By: teheatah

teheatah — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:45:24 +0000

Yeah that’s make sense too. But you just as easily snag a ID off a older person or get a fake iD.

By: Worldwide Ace » Seeing Red

Worldwide Ace » Seeing Red — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:32:29 +0000

[...] printing out fake license plates, they can get tickets sent to whomever they want. Just like those photo-recognition cigarette machines, the photo radar can�t tell the difference between a photograph and the real [...]

By: In Which We Love To Share « This Recording

In Which We Love To Share « This Recording — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:20:14 +0000

[...] Japan, and you are underage and you really need to buy cigarettes from a vending machine, you can flash money at the age verifiying camera and get smokes no problem. �(But you shouldn’t smoke, it is bad, mmm [...]

By: Displays that Know Your Face « Cultural Fuel Blog

Displays that Know Your Face « Cultural Fuel Blog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:04:03 +0000

[...] (Mainly outside Japan, as they have had age-detecting vending machines for a while, but not without a few issues there, [...]

By: Japanese Face-Scanning Technology Can Be Fooled with Magazine Photos? - Sean Dwyer

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:15:04 +0000

[...] going to use this in vending machines to prevent under-agers from buying cigarettes. Not anymore.:: Link :: No Comments so far » RSS feed for comments on this post. » TrackBack URI [...]

By: Axman

Axman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:45:04 +0000

ok, if you dont look old enough, you have to insert an ID or drivers licence for proof, why not get rid of the face recog thing and just make everyone use their ID, save billions of dollars

By: StorefrontBacktalk - Techniques, Tools, and Tirades about Retail Technology and E-Commerce

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:07:35 +0000

[...] remarkably low-tech way to fool it. How low-tech? How about a picture ripped out of a magazine?This delightful story from Pink Tentacle shows how the Japanese cigarette-machine RFID-leveraging face-recognition system but is completely [...]

By: shunichirou

shunichirou — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:38:44 +0000

well, it all depends on the person their selves… whether they want to cheat or not about smoking

By: Yen portraits fool age-verification cameras ::: Pink Tentacle

Yen portraits fool age-verification cameras ::: Pink Tentacle — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:06:29 +0000

[...] two weeks after a major sports paper reported that magazine photos could be used to fool vending machine age-verification cameras, an even more surprising flaw has come to light. The portraits of Hideyo Noguchi and Yukichi [...]

By: Tom Watson MP » Blog Archive » Age verification vending machines. Er, they’re not very good.

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:52:21 +0000

[...] Back to the drawing board pointy heads. [...]