UnLocate it
Motivation It is no secret that every image you post online contains locations information such as geotags, metadata , and device information. Tech-savvy users disable location tracking on their devices, remove metadata, and disable geotags before uploading images to protect their privacy. But it turns out that recent advancements in Deep Learning have gone one step further. It is now possible for a software to figure out your location given just the pixels in your image. Keeping this in mind, we asked the question, “What can users do now to protect themselves?” The answer was our project “UnLocate It”. Mission Create a tool that 1. Modifies your image AND 2. Fools these softwares WITH minimal loss in image quality The Pipeline Given an image, our software modifies the image in subtle ways, which are not visible to the human eye but completely baffle computers. What’s more, our neural network is fast and lightweight, an we envisage tha...