Posted on 01/01/2014 7:20:31 AM PST by KeyLargo
All in the eyes: corneal reflections in photos can help solve crimes
Tuesday 31 December 2013 - 8am PST
The eyes are not just the mirror of the soul, they also mirror the world around us. Now, a UK team has found that today's high-resolution digital images are now so detailed, they can enlarge the eyes in people's photos and retrieve images of out-of-shot bystanders reflected on their corneas.
Combine this with the fact human beings are very efficient at recognizing faces, even from poor quality images, and you have the makings of a rich forensic resource for solving crimes.
In the past it would be reasonable to assume if you were the one wielding the camera, then you would not be in the picture.
But a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE is now turning this assumption on its head.
Lead investigator Dr. Rob Jenkins, of the Department of Psychology at the University of York, says:
"The pupil of the eye is like a black mirror. To enhance the image, you have to zoom in and adjust the contrast. A face image that is recovered from a reflection in the subject's eye is about 30,000 times smaller than the subject's face."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalnewstoday.com ...
You folks may be suffering from prosopagnosia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
Regards,
That could be right, I have a very hard time getting to know people at, let’s say, an arm’s length basis. Maybe knowing this will help, I’ll try and keep it mind going forward, thanks!
Was the killer a married woman who killed her par amour? (or was it the other way round, or was it the husband?) Can’t remember these details, that’s why I can watch the same movie over and over and never remember how they ended. (This movie was on TCM about a year ago, that’s when I first saw it)
Did they do this on “Blade Runner”?
I have seen this used as a plot device in a couple of Korean shows, especially one about a super-hacker (everybody still using Windows XP though) called “Ghost”
and near the end of another one called “Two weeks” but it wasn’t made a pivotal thing.
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