Facemasks work great. There’s a reason the gestapo are using them.
People like the makeup because it looks like a cool cyberpunk future, but the moment a pipeline is designed to compensate for made up faces it will fail. Simple image processing can replace makeup hues and yield a roughly true color unobscured face.
So … back to face masks?
Facemasks don’t work very well. Makeup is a far better tool.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/researchers-defeated-advanced-facial-recognition-tech-using-makeup/
Study here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.06467
And an example –
Here’s an updated article from 2025 that works by using makeup in a subtle fashion.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/make_up_thwart_facial_recognition/
Facemasks work great. There’s a reason the gestapo are using them.
People like the makeup because it looks like a cool cyberpunk future, but the moment a pipeline is designed to compensate for made up faces it will fail. Simple image processing can replace makeup hues and yield a roughly true color unobscured face.
Actually its been proven that some face paint in these patterns fools AI from recognizing a face