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▲UC Irvine researchers bring down AI powered drones with painted umbrellas (arxiv.org)

23 points by jcalvinowens 3 days ago | 8 comments

jcalvinowens 3 days ago [-]

The real paper title is too long to fit: "FlyTrap: Physical Distance-Pulling Attack Towards Camera-based Autonomous Target Tracking Systems"

Twenty second demonstration video: https://youtu.be/tXDb5lqqFgw?si=NcAxtJIPVaLgYmun

ThePowerOfFuet 2 days ago [-]

Video link without tracking: https://youtu.be/tXDb5lqqFgw

jcalvinowens 2 days ago [-]

Mobile abbreviates the URL and I missed it! Thanks, too late to edit unfortunately.

cat-turner 2 days ago [-]

Pretty cool. I think a combo of that and emergency blankets (which hide your heat signature) will make you invisible to drones.

deflator 2 days ago [-]

"Adversarial umbrella" is my band's new name

jcalvinowens 3 days ago [-]

This was posted earlier but didn't get the attention I feel like it deserves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412102

ninju 2 days ago [-]

I'm not sure the "painting" of the umbrella added much benefit. Most of the tracking ability would be lost with any opaque head covering

RobotCaleb 2 days ago [-]

Then I think you're missing the point. Any opaque head covering would not be enough to bring the drone in to capturing or sensor attacking distance. The point is to get the drone to close distance not to stop tracking.

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