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Superresolution can only process information that's even there in the first place -- it might be trained and aware of faces enough to produce a face from very l

Superresolution can only process information that's even there in the first place -- it might be trained and aware of faces enough to produce a face from very low resolution, but it won't be an accurate identifiable face, it'll be a machine's hallucination of a plausible face, and to even find yourself in that whole courtroom argument of "is this the accused or does the AI just dream that up" you'll need enough resolution in the first place that your entire reflected face isn't just a contributor of a single captured pixel -- enough only to guess at skin hue.

onion2k 8y ago
If a system is able to identify a face with better-than-chance accuracy then it shifts things from "We have absolutely no evidence you were there so we have to believe your alibi." to "We have cause to believe you might have been there so we can doubt your alibi. " That's a long way from proof, but it could be enough to get a judge to issue a search warrant or persuade a jury that other evidence is true. This is not a good thing. Probability-based evidence such as DNA relies on people understanding probability, and most people really don't. If this system is used in the criminal justice system it will very likely lead to innocent people going to prison.