Re:Pixel Recursive Super Resolution
by anigbrowl on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:26PM
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Amazing, but also a bit scary. This will surely be used for retroactive identification from existing photographs, and will be a free gift for authoritarian law enforcement. Of course such extrapolative technologies are subject to challenge, but criminal juries have a tendency to accept forensic claims at face value notwithstanding their actual scientific reliability. It's partly because of this that if I ever found myself on trial for a crime I didn't commit I'd probably waive my right to a jury trial - laypeople are far too easily fooled.
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The results are synthesised/generated - there is no way to use this for face recognition from low res images because the result, while plausible, is not real
So what? That's never stopped people before. If it's good enough to be useful, it will be used. that's how things are in the real world.
http://www.livescience.com/49929-faulty-forensic-science-fai...
https://ncforensics.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/thousands-of-ca...