A team of researchers has developed glasses that can convince face recognition software that a user is someone else.Developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, the sunglasses trick the software by mimicking detail points.By rearranging reference points such as the shape of the nose and eyebrows, the CMU team even fooled one solution into stating that a researcher was the actress Milla Jovovic.It also impacted on the controversial subject of race, with a South-Asian female colleague digitally disguised as a Middle-Eastern male. Both tricked commercially available face recognition software Face++ with a success rate of around 90 per cent. The system wasn't perfect, however: a Middle-Eastern male trying to use the glasses to pass as white British actor Clive Owen only succeeded 16 per cent of the time.”We're starting to find that neural networks don't always have the flexibility that we once thought they had,” Mahmood Sharif, co-creator of the glasses, told New Scientist. “So only a few small targeted changes can have a large overall effect in tricking the software.”

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