On November 27th, a team of college graduates from China won a creative work contest called the China Postgraduate Innovation and Practice Competition, an event run by a computer science professor named Wang Zheng from Wuhan University. The winning group presented an invention to the judgment panel called the InvisDefense coat (aka the invisible cloak). This outerwear has been described as a 'plain-looking' jacket capable of concealing the wearer's identity from artificial intelligence and security camera during the daytime or night. The trick is in the temperature patterns and the coat's camouflage design, which was created to bamboozle the human eye, making it undetectable under artificial surveillance.
"The most difficult part is the balance of the camouflage pattern," said a core member of the innovative college group named Wei Hui. "Traditionally, researchers used bright images to interfere with machine vision, and it did work. But it stands out to human eyes, making the user even more conspicuous,”
Now, the obvious question is how will the "invisible coat" be used and by whom? Wei Hui said that his team's ground-breaking invention might be an ideal fit as a defensive mechanism during a time of war.
“InvisDefense might also be used in anti-drone combat or human-machine confrontation on the battlefield,” said the Ph.D. student. Wei Hui and his group mates present the InvisDefense coat at the heralded annual artificial intelligence meeting called the AAAI 2023 Conference in Washington, DC, in February of 2023.
Source: MSN
