A cardboard sign with a colourful print. That’s all researchers from the Faculty of Engineering Technology at KU Leuven needed to fool a smart camera. To be clear: Wiebe Van Ranst, Simen Thys, and Toon Goedemé from the EAVISE research group don’t have evil intentions. Quite the opposite. Their research aims to expose the weaknesses of intelligent detection systems.
"Smart detection systems rely on pattern recognition," says Professor Goedemé, head of EAVISE (Embedded and Artificially Intelligent Vision Engineering) at De Nayer Campus. "They consist of a camera and software to interpret the images automatically. If you train these systems with images of different people for a while, they learn to recognise people and to distinguish them from objects. ...
