brilliant piece by the BBC news

[bobby1]

they just showed an interview with one of the guys arrested in Birmingham last week "who doesnt want to be identified"


they showed an out of focus image + then a subtitle came on "abu bakr" interviewed by BBC''

[ifm]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

[TightPaulFolds]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

Even then, probably some taxi driver they found floating around the beeb lobby...

[AndrewT]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

Yes, you can. When you squint, your brain works extra hard to make sense of the limited information it is receiving and put the pieces together. Because we have special parts of our brain dedicated to recognising faces, we can overcome the pixellation to work out what the original face looks like.

[Royal Flush]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

Yes, you can. When you squint, your brain works extra hard to make sense of the limited information it is receiving and put the pieces together. Because we have special parts of our brain dedicated to recognising faces, we can overcome the pixellation to work out what the original face looks like.

If only Morris had known that in 24.

[NoflopsHomer]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

Yes, you can. When you squint, your brain works extra hard to make sense of the limited information it is receiving and put the pieces together. Because we have special parts of our brain dedicated to recognising faces, we can overcome the pixellation to work out what the original face looks like.

If only Morris had known that in 24.

PMSL!

[AndrewT]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

Yes, you can. When you squint, your brain works extra hard to make sense of the limited information it is receiving and put the pieces together. Because we have special parts of our brain dedicated to recognising faces, we can overcome the pixellation to work out what the original face looks like.

If only Morris had known that in 24.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH - DON'T POST 24 SPOILERS.

I haven't had a chance to watch this week's episode yet.

(though I had kind of guessed from last week's)

[Sark79]

They interviewed a Polish worker yesterday who works at the farm where the bird flu crisis has taken place.  He asked not to have his name shown, but they showed him on TV talking about the working environment at the farm.  I get the feeling there was a breakdown in the translation and he actually wanted to have his identity concealed completely rather than just his name.  He probably watched the news and thought   WTF?   

[wader leg]

When they darken the picture to try and conceal peoples identity just turn up the brightness on your telly, I know the faces of loads of SAS members and numerous under cover agents using this method.
Reg Smith
Dewsbury

Letter to Viz circa 1989

[TightPaulFolds]

I find if you squint you can see the faces pretty clearly when they are "pixelated"

Yes, you can. When you squint, your brain works extra hard to make sense of the limited information it is receiving and put the pieces together. Because we have special parts of our brain dedicated to recognising faces, we can overcome the pixellation to work out what the original face looks like.

???huh?
I think it might be a spatial frequency adjustment, maybe I'm wrong.
Interesting experiment: you can disambiguate the 'monalisa smile' by averting your gaze off left of the face, I suppose this is the same thing: spatial frequency shift allowing the cortex a different image to work from.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=163

Bizarre fact: the english scientist who discovered cells specializing in facial recognition did so by accident: the instrument being inserted into a chimp brain was going to test a different set of neurons, but bent out of shape, and ended up in the facial 'recognition' cluster.

This probably incredibly boring to most people, lol.

[roverthtaeh]

Whenever I get pixelated on a Friday night, I can't see sod all.