Given that most shoppers in Western grocery stores currently carry mobile phones that tell anyone who’s nearby about their identity. There’s little need to use anything else to identity shoppers.
I had an experience where a friend changed her body tension patterns enough that I didn’t recognize her after she was a week on vacation.
Physical therapy to be able to switch walking styles deliberately might be problematic because having the ability to move in a very conscious way is likely to produce tells. Whether or not the gait recognition algorithm can pick up on them however is another question and probably not at the level of only giving 94% accuracy.
Japan, the US, and the UK have also been working on gait recognition, though I doubt it’s being seriously deployed in the same way as in China.
A decade ago the London was of the mindset that the limiting factor for their surveilance was disc space.
I would be surprised if the Five Eyes don’t have gait recognition.
This video on how Usonian CIA operatives disguise themselves claims a simple piece of gravel in your shoe will change how you walk completely: https://youtu.be/JASUsVY5YJ8
It will change some patterns of how you walk. Likely, those visible to most people. There are other things that it likely won’t change.
If you for example take the gait pattern of police officers to hold their hands more laterally then the average person which comes from walking around a lot with a gun on your belt I would be surprised if that pattern simply disappears when you put a gravel in someone’s shoe.
I’m uncertain to what extend a gravel in someone’s shoe would affect my recognition if the gravel is just there for the interaction and not walking around a month with the gravel. The gravel changes muscle activiation but it doesn’t do anything to change the fascia patterns in a short amount of time.
It’s worth noting that gait patterns are more central to me perception of other people then most people. One example for that was a workshop at a dance festival where the dance instructor was demostrating how he changed the way he was doing a dance step and then asked what he changed. I was able to pick it up, but it seems like I was the first person to do so and the dance instructor asked whether I have been at the workshop before (he did the same workshop at many different festivals).
One interesting aspect of the video is the claim that while women can manage to pass as men, men can’t manage to pass as women. From what I know about transpeople, there are transpeople who manage to present as the opposite sex in both directions. It might take more work for a male to present as female but it’s possible.
Given that most shoppers in Western grocery stores currently carry mobile phones that tell anyone who’s nearby about their identity. There’s little need to use anything else to identity shoppers.
I had an experience where a friend changed her body tension patterns enough that I didn’t recognize her after she was a week on vacation.
Physical therapy to be able to switch walking styles deliberately might be problematic because having the ability to move in a very conscious way is likely to produce tells. Whether or not the gait recognition algorithm can pick up on them however is another question and probably not at the level of only giving 94% accuracy.
A decade ago the London was of the mindset that the limiting factor for their surveilance was disc space.
I would be surprised if the Five Eyes don’t have gait recognition.
This video on how Usonian CIA operatives disguise themselves claims a simple piece of gravel in your shoe will change how you walk completely: https://youtu.be/JASUsVY5YJ8
It will change some patterns of how you walk. Likely, those visible to most people. There are other things that it likely won’t change.
If you for example take the gait pattern of police officers to hold their hands more laterally then the average person which comes from walking around a lot with a gun on your belt I would be surprised if that pattern simply disappears when you put a gravel in someone’s shoe.
I’m uncertain to what extend a gravel in someone’s shoe would affect my recognition if the gravel is just there for the interaction and not walking around a month with the gravel. The gravel changes muscle activiation but it doesn’t do anything to change the fascia patterns in a short amount of time.
It’s worth noting that gait patterns are more central to me perception of other people then most people. One example for that was a workshop at a dance festival where the dance instructor was demostrating how he changed the way he was doing a dance step and then asked what he changed. I was able to pick it up, but it seems like I was the first person to do so and the dance instructor asked whether I have been at the workshop before (he did the same workshop at many different festivals).
One interesting aspect of the video is the claim that while women can manage to pass as men, men can’t manage to pass as women. From what I know about transpeople, there are transpeople who manage to present as the opposite sex in both directions. It might take more work for a male to present as female but it’s possible.
Usonian = from the USA, which doesn’t offend the sensibilities of the rest of the countries in the continent of America