This technology (or at least variants) already exists. Image upscaling with convolutional neural nets is an old trick at this point, but with Nvidia integrating real-time denoising into their RTX technology I suspect that real-time upscaling is right around the corner if someone hasn't done it already.
Nah, the CSI "enhance" thing is "multi-frame super-resolution image recovery", a different (though related) ML technique.
Speaking of, though: you'd think, by now, that security cameras that capture footage at very low framerates for the sake of storage space, would have ASICS in them using those models to convolve together a bunch of grainy input frames into a stream of fewer, but very good and clean frames.
Any hardware on the market with this capability yet?
It makes sense for entertainment but not for security cameras - then you're filling it in with made up information. A security camera is supposed to be a record of truth.
Imagine a world where low information sorts interpret a sampling of possible hi-res reconstructions from low-res security videos as ground truth. That to me is far scarier than the OpenAI and MIRI fear-mongering about GPT-2.
It’s not made-up information; it’s parallax / compressed sensing, in the same way that you can see through the grate on the front of a microwave oven to what’s behind it by moving your eyes around.
If it’s good enough for generating accurate fMRI images from sequentially-overlaid magnetic flux readings, it’s definitely good enough for generating visuals from slightly suckier visuals.
