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Approaches like these are hallucinating the high resolution images though--not something that we'd ever want being used for police work. That said, I wonder if

Approaches like these are hallucinating the high resolution images though--not something that we'd ever want being used for police work. That said, I wonder if it would perform better than eyewitness testimony...

xyzzy_plugh 9y ago
You could e.g. ostensibly produce valid license plates, which could be further reduced by matching the car color and model, to produce a small set of calid records.
- gambiting 9y ago
  Sure, but if we go by how the police works now, they will take a plate produced by the computer as 100% given and arrest/shoot the owner of that plate because "computer said so".
- IncRnd 9y ago
  Such an algorithm would likely get the state wrong. This is error prone and fraught with real world difficulties that could get people shot.
- asfdsfggtfd 9y ago
  You could also just pick a random license plate. It would be just as accurate.
netsharc 9y ago
It would be useful to reduce the number of suspects... calculate possible combinations, match them against the mugshots database and investigate/interrogate those people. Or if you're the NSA/KGB, you can match against the social media pictures database, and then ask the social media company to tell you where these users were at the time of the crime (since the social media app on the phone track their users' location...)
smallnamespace 9y ago
> hallucinating the high resolution images though To play devil's advocate though, modern neuroscience and neuropsychology basically tells us that that our brains reconstruct and recreate our memories every time we try to remember them. Our memories are highly malleable and prone to false implantation... and yet witness testimony is still the gold standard in courts.
- gvx 9y ago
  And experts have been calling for a long time to at least limit the power of witness testimony, precisely for those reasons.
smelterdemon 9y ago
I wouldn't want to see it used as evidence in court (and I doubt it would be allowed anyway but IANAL) but I could see this being a useful in certain circumstances for generating the photo-realistic equivalent of a police sketch e.g. if you had low-res security footage of a suspect and an eyewitness to guide the output.

xyzzy_plugh 9y ago

You could e.g. ostensibly produce valid license plates, which could be further reduced by matching the car color and model, to produce a small set of calid records.

gambiting 9y ago
Sure, but if we go by how the police works now, they will take a plate produced by the computer as 100% given and arrest/shoot the owner of that plate because "computer said so".
IncRnd 9y ago
Such an algorithm would likely get the state wrong. This is error prone and fraught with real world difficulties that could get people shot.
asfdsfggtfd 9y ago
You could also just pick a random license plate. It would be just as accurate.

netsharc 9y ago

It would be useful to reduce the number of suspects... calculate possible combinations, match them against the mugshots database and investigate/interrogate those people. Or if you're the NSA/KGB, you can match against the social media pictures database, and then ask the social media company to tell you where these users were at the time of the crime (since the social media app on the phone track their users' location...)

smallnamespace 9y ago

> hallucinating the high resolution images though To play devil's advocate though, modern neuroscience and neuropsychology basically tells us that that our brains reconstruct and recreate our memories every time we try to remember them. Our memories are highly malleable and prone to false implantation... and yet witness testimony is still the gold standard in courts.

gvx 9y ago
And experts have been calling for a long time to at least limit the power of witness testimony, precisely for those reasons.

smelterdemon 9y ago

I wouldn't want to see it used as evidence in court (and I doubt it would be allowed anyway but IANAL) but I could see this being a useful in certain circumstances for generating the photo-realistic equivalent of a police sketch e.g. if you had low-res security footage of a suspect and an eyewitness to guide the output.