![]() “The techniques we’re using in this paper are very standard in image recognition, which is a disturbing thought,” says Vitaly Shmatikov, one of the authors from Cornell Tech. Instead, the team found that mainstream machine learning methods-the process of “training” a computer with a set of example data rather than programming it-lend themselves readily to this type of attack. And they didn’t even need to painstakingly develop extensive new image uncloaking methodologies to do it. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits of standard content-masking techniques like blurring and pixelation by learning to read or see what’s meant to be hidden in images-anything from a blurred house number to a pixelated human face in the background of a photo. As computer vision becomes increasingly robust, it’s starting to see things we can’t. The problem, however, is that humans aren’t the only image recognition masters around anymore. The technique is nothing fancy, but it has worked well enough, because people can’t see or read through the distortion. Blurred chunks of text or obscured faces and license plates show up on the news, in redacted documents, and online. ![]() Also how, in the end, the innocent soldiers were the ones who pay for the crimes that their teammates commit whether physically (Salazar) or psychologically (McCoy).Pixelation has long been a familiar fig leaf to cover our visual media’s most private parts. Another true and clever thing about the movie were the videos posted on the internet whether for the insurgents, soldiers' wives, or the people who oppose such disgraceful crimes. And you don't need De Palma or the Fox news to tell you that!! May be it is true that they might not know a lot about Iraq, but what makes you think that you know better than them about Iraq?!!. But does that mean that they are right? they are both wrong!! All the movie did is that it put the reality of what is going on in Iraq in to cinema cause not all people follow the news or know which media to be trusted moreover, it didn't say that those stories or characters are true or ever existed. Like most of the people who support the American army there and consider every Iraqi or Muslim a terrorist or "desert nig**r" or "rag head", most of the Iraqis and Muslims consider every troop a thief, raper, and occupier who is after money, oil and damaging or destroying Islam. Something that has been successfully shown and well presented in that movie. You can tell from the look whether that soldier is a good or a bad one. Also the psychological pressure that most of those soldiers are under has been made clear in this movie as well as, the negativity, hostility and racism of some soldiers.If you are an Iraqi who understands English, you can understand what the American soldiers mumble or yell about every time an Iraqi approaches them. And choosing Sammara rather than any other province or city was so wise since the pressure and threat that the soldiers are under there is not the same for soldiers who are in rather safer areas like the Northern part of Iraq. The combination of bad and good soldiers is so true. ![]() It is not about elections and politics!! it is about hundreds of people getting killed daily by different groups whether Al-Qaeda, the militias, death squads, or the coalition forces themselves!! The movie was so touching in every single aspect for an Iraqi who had lived there and witnessed the war. You don't need to know anything to be human!! and to stop killing, supporting, or covering for the killing of the innocents. And it is really frustrating to hear those voices picking holes in De Palma's movie and accusing him of being biased or not knowing how the army operates or.or. I am not an American who is in favour of certain political wing or party. First of all I am an Iraqi who witnessed everything that happened since the first moment the war took place. I would give this movie 10 stars for the courage that the producers had shown to reveal the truth about was going on there in Iraq.
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