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by s_kilk 2336 days ago
Correct, if the information simply isn't present no amount of trickery will conjure it up.
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Well, these days there is plenty of trickery that will conjure up plausible details to put in place of the information that isn't there. It won't be true information though.
Sometimes enriching possibilities is good enough to break out of an investigative minima but other restrictions prevent you from recapitulating that evidence in your line of thinking. That's why parallel construction is helpful.
Or the degree to which entropy gets reduced still isn't sufficient to åfford admissible amounts of certainty on its own.
While you are correct for a still image, there is more information in a movie. That could potentially be exploited similar to the way a long exposure can cancel noise. This normally requires a static subject, but some AI technique may be able to normalize the position of the objects so that they are amenable to be averaged.