CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition. It is a concept and strategy, not a pattern or product, and it is always designed relative to a specific algorithm and unique to each face.

CV Dazzle, as a concept, can be applied to any computer vision algorithm. There is no one single CV Dazzle design, but many designs for different people for different algorithms. It is encouraged that you create an entirely new look. The looks featured here are for reference only. It is not advised to recreate them.

The name CV Dazzle was inspired by a type of World War I naval camouflage called Dazzle, which used cubist-inspired designs to break apart the visual continuity of a battleship and conceal its orientation and size. Likewise, CV Dazzle uses avant-garde hairstyling and makeup designs to break apart the continuity of a face. Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an “anti-face”.