On: Germany bans digital doppelganger passport photos

[CaptainZapp]

Sure, you go through one of the automated gates, pretty common in most European airports now.

Face recognition gives the green light, since (part of) the picture is a perfect match.

A human may not be fooled, automated face recognition may.

[LegitShady → CaptainZapp]

from the article:

>Such manipulation of photos is typically invisible to the human eye, the researchers found.

I think its more like attacking a machine learning model - the difference in the photos may not be apparent at all, so a human reviewer might not catch something.