Forensic and Technical Imaging - - please help, thanks.

emilylt87 · #1 05-14-2008, 09:38 PM

Hi,

My dad owns a restaurant that had an attempted armed robbery. fortunately the suspect was chased out by a fearless worker. I have a 320 x 240 screen grab from a security camera but i can not make out the face. it gets a little better using lucisart but i'm not sure if there are any other ways? I'f any one knows a little more about enhancing the suspect face that would be great, if you would like to try and help my family with this i will email you the screen grab just message me.

Thank for everyones input,

Emily

jeffg64 · #2 05-14-2008, 09:59 PM

Can you provide a copy of the image?

emilylt87 · #3 05-14-2008, 10:11 PM

PM me your email and ill send it to you. I'm actually scarred to put it up, I don't know why, i just am.

emilylt87 · #4 05-14-2008, 10:14 PM

o what the heck ill post it....

jeffg64 · #5 05-15-2008, 06:54 AM

Do you have a higher res version or is the size you posted the best? If you do email it to me: jeff@jeffguayproductions.com

emilylt87 · #6 05-15-2008, 09:57 AM

the size i posed it what the cops couple get from the video

Ziaphra · #7 05-15-2008, 10:22 AM

That looks like a woman to me...guaging by the shadows on the chest 'she' seems to have a 'rack'!

MatthewMarshall · #8 05-26-2008, 04:18 AM

sadly there is only so much you can do to an image. Sometimes i wish we could do all the cool stuff they can do on that ABC CSI Miami show. They do make software that can enhance video. But only to an extent.

DCobb · #9 05-26-2008, 03:22 PM

I will start by stating I am not a professional. Started with your picture and sharpened it. Ran that image through focus magic and then using a blow-up program took the picture in small increments to 8X6. Can't say anything was accomplished.

I see you have already received posts from some very knowledgeable individuals, but thought I would post this anyway.

dc

crazyfly1 · #10 05-30-2008, 11:47 PM

Just a happy little armed robber isn't she.

*dp* · #11 06-05-2008, 11:51 PM

Here's a plain old school up-res in photoshop. I cut out and desaturated the background to focus more on the subject.

I'm not sure about the "rack" so much..
could have something tucked up under the hoodie in the chest and holding it up there with his/her arms tightly on sides. When I had it blown way up, looked too lopsided - maybe they wanted the loot for implants..

anyhow, hope this helps.

l2jc · #12 06-06-2008, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emilylt87

o what the heck ill post it....

For this job use the program PhotoZoom Pro 2 from benvista..its a great tool that helped clean up a zoomed image of a suspect i caught on a surveillance camera. It's a 15 day trial..use the spline and xspline those worked the best for me..but try all of them to see which one is the cleanest

http://www.benvista.com/main/content...page=downloads

l2jc · #13 06-06-2008, 12:12 AM

hope you catch em by the way. hate those kind of people with a passion.

smathis · #14 06-13-2008, 08:59 PM

First off I'm not a forensic photo analyst, so this is not professional. I do work with photos. I don't have a color accurate setup at home, but here is what I came up with...

As another disclaimer I did a lot of work with the channels and levels to try and summon out some facial details, so skin tones are not necessarily correct.