An “invisibility cloak” which is primarily a coat, created by students at Wuhan University in China will conceal its wearers from surveillance cameras.
Wearers of the inexpensive InvisDefense coat can evade detection by security cameras controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) during the day or night.
According to South China Morning Post (SCMP), the product got the top honor in a competition held as part of the China Postgraduate Innovation and Practice Competitions and sponsored by Huawei Technologies.
The InvisDefese coat, according to the team, is visible to human eyes but is covered in a pattern that, during the day, blinds cameras and, at night, emits strange heat signals.
Due to the way it is made, some self-driving auto-detecting systems may be fooled by the cloak as well, but not the human drivers.
Professor Wang Zheng, who directed the design and is a professor at Wuhan University’s school of computer science, explained to SCMP, “Nowadays, many surveillance devices can detect human bodies. Cameras on the road have pedestrian detection functions and smart cars can identify pedestrians, roads, and obstacles. Our InvisDefense allows the camera to capture you, but it cannot tell if you are human.”
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