Gigapan

I have made prior blog entries about super high resolution cameras and progress in the state of the art and how it is being applied interested me today.

This link is recent, 19 October, gigapic at this link.  

Take  look.  Conveniently all facing one way and well lit.  Zoom in on faces as far as possible to test the resolution quality.  If a friend was in the crowd might you recognize them?  How about a computer doing facial recognition, categorization, analysis.  It is a mass photo of a gathering that has a political agenda.

There is a mass gathering with a political agenda today in Hong Kong.  What agency might be taking pictures of a surveillance nature there for what purpose.  Previously, gigapics were taken of sports events or masses celebrating world champion sports victories in public places.  All very innocent or were they simply test beds for other uses?  The linked picture moves closer to identifying people in a public gathering of a political nature and making that picture available on the world wide web.

A sequence of pictures of a single mass event could follow a single person over time based on facial recognition.   It is possible.  Also identify nearby faces as the person traveled in a crowd to learn if they appears nearby in any prior or subsequent pictures.

Gigapan of the world series here at this link.  Smile, Don't pick your nose