China’s Wuhan University students have invented a low-cost invisibility cloak called ‘InvisDefense’ that can hide wearers from AI monitored security cameras and can be used during the day or night.
According to the team, the InvisDefese coat can be seen by human eyes but is covered in a pattern that blinds cameras during the day and sends out unusual heat signals at night. The invention is said to be useful for stealth military uniforms to evade detection from drones or AI-controlled units.
Professor Wang Zheng from Wuhan University’s school of computer science, said, “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. The cost of a complete set of InvisDefense is less than 500 yuan (US$70).”
Additionally, a team of researchers at the University of Maryland have also developed a similar real-life invisibility cloak. The cloak is actually a colourful sweater that deletes you right out of a machine’s vision. The sweater makes a person ‘invisible’ in front of the AI models that detect people.
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