<story><title>Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)</title><url>http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325&amp;</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gknoy</author><text>&amp;quot;... from approximately 1 m using a ... 39 megapixel digital camera ... with 120 mm macro lens&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Good news: At least we can still trust that normaly surveillance cameras won&amp;#x27;t have the kind of resolution to perform this feat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>And the thing about technology is, it keeps moving forward.&lt;p&gt;I was remarking the other day about some neighbors who caught the folks who broke into their house because a person &lt;i&gt;across the street&lt;/i&gt; had a 1080p video camera which caught them going over the side fence (and fortunately facing the street).&lt;p&gt;And in my personal experience of &amp;quot;Imagine you could play a game where the graphics card would realistically render the battle from any angle in real time! No way, too much compute needed.&amp;quot; where I really missed the notion that multi-core GPUs would grow like they had.&lt;p&gt;What this research says is that &lt;i&gt;when&lt;/i&gt; you have pictures of people from high resolution cameras, that have high dynamic range, you will be able to pull out faces of people near them from corneal reflections. That won&amp;#x27;t be today obviously, it might not be five years from now, but don&amp;#x27;t count it out as &amp;quot;never.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013)</title><url>http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325&amp;</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gknoy</author><text>&amp;quot;... from approximately 1 m using a ... 39 megapixel digital camera ... with 120 mm macro lens&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Good news: At least we can still trust that normaly surveillance cameras won&amp;#x27;t have the kind of resolution to perform this feat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Houshalter</author><text>For the time being. It is a concern for the future. For example, here is a tiny super cheap, &lt;i&gt;lens-free&lt;/i&gt; camera: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525731/lens-free-camera-sees-things-differently/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;525731&amp;#x2F;lens-free-camera...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And there is &amp;quot;super-resolution&amp;quot; which combines multiple low-res pictures (e.g. frames of a video) into a single high resolution image: &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/6608238&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;6608238&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>