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Re:Pixel Recursive Super Resolution by anigbrowl on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:26PM (#13584221)
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.
Re:Pixel Recursive Super Resolution by dharma1 on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:33PM (#13584302)
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
Re:Pixel Recursive Super Resolution by anigbrowl on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:54PM (#13584544)
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...