Criminals and Terrorists Beware: You Are Being Watched

Israel National News ^ | July 1, 2009 | Israel National News Staff

[Tzvi INN.com]

It’s a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist. But in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn’t been an easy task - until now.

Tel Aviv University Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky and his colleagues have developed a new video “perfection tool” to help investigators enhance raw video images and identify suspects.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Unfortunately, everyone else too. I read recently that you could be photographed 200 times in a day without your knowledge. If you don’t believe it, just take a close look at all the traffic cameras. I think my city must have used zer0bama’s “stimulus” money on buying cameras. Big Brother is definitely watching.

[TLI]

“Our video perfection tool works to improve visual quality and achieve a higher resolution of the video image,” says Prof. Yaroslavsky.

I detect a little voodoo here. If the image is originally digital they are inserting data that does not exist. Essentially they are seeing what they want to see, not what the data indicates.

[sr4402]

From the Article: The TAU team exploited the fact that most parts of a video scene remain still. While there are moving objects such as people, animals or vehicles, a major part of the video - the background - does not move at all. Using specially designed algorithms, the team built a software application that lets cameras and video analysis equipment stabilize images, allowing objects that are really moving to be distinguished from chaotic atmospheric changes

[LibWhacker]

This would help, too (use mouse wheel to zoom in). Someday, we'll probably have cheap terapixel cams and better. Then, lookout! combined with these image stabilizing and enhancing techniques, governments won't need a lot of cameras to keep an eye on all of us.