Awesome! Start issuing 39megapixel cameras to registered sex offenders and IS immediately!!
Boffins spy I in your little eye
Researchers from the University of York's psychology school have found that faces reflected in your eyes can be captured in high enough resolution to be identified. To demonstrate not only that the images exist, but that they can be identified, Rob Jenkins and Christie Kerr got volunteers to perform recognition tasks. Using a …
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Wednesday 7th January 2015 19:57 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: CSI?
"Amazing how much information can be extracted from a single pixel!"
The cameras they access are the "special" ones installed by GCHQ/NSA. The CCD sensors are fractal based and have infinite zoom. You just need the special software to access the full data. Without that, they appear as low resolution, noisy, black and white images for use on TV shows like crimewatch.
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Tuesday 6th January 2015 13:25 GMT Marcus Fil
Twin Peaks
preceded CSI by a fair few years. However, look at "Refelective Eyes" on tvtropes webpage - the whole concept is hardly new. More recently one online reviewer of the Nikon D800 was impressed to find a recongnisable reflection of himself in the eye of a bird he had photographed at a wildlife park. For the full "Blade Runner" track/enhance effect we are probably waiting on an 16 Gpixel Lytro to add the single lens 3D plus ridiculous resolution - so not long now then. Plus the workstation is more likely to be a MacBook Something rather than a box that looks like it came from Amstrad.
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Wednesday 7th January 2015 05:25 GMT Eric O'Brien
Details of photo studios found in reflections in old glass plate photos
I recall reading a few years ago that researchers had recovered "behind the camera" images from reflections seen in props and still life objects in (I think) glass plate negatives taken by photographers in their studios.
I haven't been able to locate this again. ;(