A Former CIA Chief of Disguise Shows Off a Five-Second Mask
Meet Jonna Mendez, the former CIA Chief of Disguise (a real job!). During her tenure, Mendez oversaw the equipment used by spies to conceal their identities, including a five-second...
Faces in disguise. Masks, concealment, and deceit - PMC
People used masks and costumes to avoid the possibility of recognition, as masks obfuscate the informative indices coming from the face. Indeed, recent literature on the subject has suggested the relevance of face disguise in preventing automatic face …
Mask | Definition, History, Uses, & Facts | Britannica
Mask, a form of disguise or concealment usually worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being. This essential characteristic of hiding and revealing personalities or moods is common to all masks.
'Hyper-realistic' masks fool a fifth of people, say researchers
2019年11月21日 · Modern "hyper realistic" masks can be so convincing that people often can't distinguish them from a real face, say researchers. The latest masks can cost around £1,000 and experts say they could ...
Hyper-realistic masks are extremely hard to spot - The …
2020年2月4日 · Across several studies, they showed that detecting people wearing hyper-realistic masks in photographs and from memory was indeed extremely difficult. But what about up close in a real-world ...
The Spy Who Saved Me: Former CIA master of disguise helps …
2022年10月29日 · He developed full face masks that could completely change someone’s appearance, right down to their ethnicity, in seconds — a process known as an identity transfer.
Hyper-realistic Face Masks in a Live Passport-Checking Task
2020年2月3日 · Hyper-realistic face masks have been used as disguises in at least one border crossing and in numerous criminal cases. Experimental tests using these masks have shown that viewers accept them as real faces under a range of conditions. Here, we tested mask detection in a live identity verification task.
Face masks are less effective than sunglasses in masking face
2023年3月15日 · We found that sunglasses led to larger reductions in sensitivity (d’) to face identity than face masks did, while both disguises increased the tendency to report faces as studied before, a...
How to Put Together a Good Disguise, According to the CIA
2018年10月23日 · But simpler ways to completely change the face are dental facades and plumpers, which mask your teeth and even reform the shape of your face. They’ll sometimes add in artificial palettes to...
Fascinating Look at the Disguises That CIA Operatives Use to …
2021年10月9日 · Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise, specialized in concealing the identities of operatives and assets in the field, while also developing new methods of deception. This entailed creating photorealistic masks that look indistinguishable from a real face.