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Finding a Murderer in a Victim’s Eye

21 points by gotocake 8y ago

faitswulff 8y ago
I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0
- noir_lord 8y ago
  My favourite parody of csi style enhance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
  - yuchi 8y ago
    That's a Blade Runner parody!
  - King-Aaron 8y ago
    That's fantastic. I must say though, this whole discussion makes me think of Will Smith here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5kRvCZ_Ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5kRvCZ_Ng
- picsao 8y ago
  I always wondered whether you could train a neural net to to do deep zoom.
vichu 8y ago
I remember seeing this in the Wild Wild West[0] movie from 1999. It's curious seeing the history behind it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8
- romanticComedy 8y ago
  Seriously though, doesn't it bother you that the primary gag is to repeat the same five words at each beat in the rhythm of that scene? It's such a lowest common denominator bit. This is sort of an odd crux to juxtapose, as a premise of art immitating life. On the one hand, you have a plot device delivering some interesting sci-fi exposition to move the story forward, and on the other hand, you've got this squeamish every man wringing his hands from the vantage point of some supposed moral high ground, each ignoring the other, distracted by their own fixation. Really makes you think.
wool_gather 8y ago
Also used as a plot device in one of the amazing Lord Darcy stories, by Randall Garrett. A detective and his Watson in a medieval setting where magic is not particularly magical, but actually forensic science. They obtain a very clear image of the murderer from the victim using a spell, but it doesn't resemble any of the possible perpetrators.
bookofjoe 8y ago
I recall many years ago reading an article about how, with sufficiently powerful computers, it would be possible to reconstruct what a person in a photograph is looking at by enhancing the pinpoints of light reflected off their pupils.
mhb 8y ago
Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083325 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

21 points by gotocake 8y ago

I was really hoping this would be a paper describing how to "enhance" the image a la the CSI TV show[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0

noir_lord 8y ago
My favourite parody of csi style enhance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
- yuchi 8y ago
  That's a Blade Runner parody!
- King-Aaron 8y ago
  That's fantastic. I must say though, this whole discussion makes me think of Will Smith here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5kRvCZ_Ng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw5kRvCZ_Ng
picsao 8y ago
I always wondered whether you could train a neural net to to do deep zoom.

vichu 8y ago

I remember seeing this in the Wild Wild West[0] movie from 1999. It's curious seeing the history behind it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFHZDXhUI8

romanticComedy 8y ago
Seriously though, doesn't it bother you that the primary gag is to repeat the same five words at each beat in the rhythm of that scene? It's such a lowest common denominator bit. This is sort of an odd crux to juxtapose, as a premise of art immitating life. On the one hand, you have a plot device delivering some interesting sci-fi exposition to move the story forward, and on the other hand, you've got this squeamish every man wringing his hands from the vantage point of some supposed moral high ground, each ignoring the other, distracted by their own fixation. Really makes you think.

wool_gather 8y ago

Also used as a plot device in one of the amazing Lord Darcy stories, by Randall Garrett. A detective and his Watson in a medieval setting where magic is not particularly magical, but actually forensic science. They obtain a very clear image of the murderer from the victim using a spell, but it doesn't resemble any of the possible perpetrators.

bookofjoe 8y ago

I recall many years ago reading an article about how, with sufficiently powerful computers, it would be possible to reconstruct what a person in a photograph is looking at by enhancing the pinpoints of light reflected off their pupils.

mhb 8y ago

Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083325 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...