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ENHANCE!


Nah, the CSI "enhance" thing is "multi-frame super-resolution image recovery", a different (though related) ML technique.

Speaking of, though: you'd think, by now, that security cameras that capture footage at very low framerates for the sake of storage space, would have ASICS in them using those models to convolve together a bunch of grainy input frames into a stream of fewer, but very good and clean frames.

Any hardware on the market with this capability yet?


It makes sense for entertainment but not for security cameras - then you're filling it in with made up information. A security camera is supposed to be a record of truth.


Imagine a world where low information sorts interpret a sampling of possible hi-res reconstructions from low-res security videos as ground truth. That to me is far scarier than the OpenAI and MIRI fear-mongering about GPT-2.


It’s not made-up information; it’s parallax / compressed sensing, in the same way that you can see through the grate on the front of a microwave oven to what’s behind it by moving your eyes around.

If it’s good enough for generating accurate fMRI images from sequentially-overlaid magnetic flux readings, it’s definitely good enough for generating visuals from slightly suckier visuals.




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