• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.

    But you will see the event happen though.

    It’s a matter of if you can identify who the perpetrator is or not, but at least that due diligence should be done by police, looking at the person doing the crime and see if they can be identified.

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      11 months ago

      But you will see the event happen though.

      Not with a binary search.

      Edit: just collapse this thread and move on. Cosmic Cleric is an obvious troll.

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        But you will see the event happen though.

        Not with a binary search.

        Yes you will.

        A binary search is just what it says, it’s just for searching only.

        When you find that moment in time where the bike was there one moment, and then the next moment the bike’s not there, then you view at regular or even slow-mo at those few seconds of the bike in the middle of disappearing, and see the perpetrator, and hopefully can identify them.

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          11 months ago

          You didn’t get what was talked about here. Re-read the topmost parent comment.

          How do you binary search for two people arriving, one punches the other, they both leave?

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            How do you binary search for two people arriving, one punches the other, they both leave?

            In the same way the OP talks about it …

            You don’t watch the whole thing, he said. You use a binary search. You fast forward to halfway, see if the bike is there and, if it is, zoom to three quarters of the way through. But if it wasn’t there at the halfway mark, you rewind to a quarter of the way though. Its very quick. In fact, he had pointed out, if the CCTV footage stretched back to the dawn of humanity it would probably have taken an hour to find the moment of theft.

            Instead of a bike, you look for the aftereffects of a fight happening (chairs knocked down, tables turned over, etc.). You can even look at how many people congregate around the location of the fight before and after the video as a ‘marker’ to the point of time the fight was happening/just finished.

            Edit: One thing we didn’t even mention, AI can also be used these days to notice subtle changes in the video. If a video is a static image of an alley, then two people walk in the alley and fight, even though they leave no traces behind, that moment of the fight is caught on the video with activity/movement. Motion sensor movement, basically.

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                11 months ago

                You are seriously confused.

                And you are seriously trying to kill the messenger.

                OP specifically said that you’re fucked if there is no visual cue.

                And I’m saying there’s ALWAYS a visual clue/cue, always. Either the bike is there one minute and gone another, or a fight breaks out and trashes the place from the fight. In the vast amount of cases, there’s always a visual difference.

                And in this case we’re talking specifically about a bike, going missing.

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                  Ok but the text that you replied to, that you quoted, was “If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.” Emphasis mine. If you’d started out saying “there’s ALWAYS a visual cue,” then you likely wouldn’t be getting dragged, but you started out arguing from this position without clarifying it, which makes it seem like you didn’t know what you were talking about. You can’t say that you can simply look for visual cues when the other person specified that there were none.

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                    Ok but the text that you replied to, that you quoted, was “If the event lasts only a moment and leaves no visual cue (e.g. an assault), then binary search is practically useless.” Emphasis mine. If you’d started out saying “there’s ALWAYS a visual cue,” then you likely wouldn’t be getting dragged, but you started out arguing from this position without clarifying it, which makes it seem like you didn’t know what you were talking about.

                    Last time I checked, I’m allow to disagree with a comment someone made, and argue the opposite. Just because they say ‘no visual cue’ does not mean that is no visual cue.

                    You can’t say that you can simply look for visual cues when the other person specified that there were none.

                    Why, because you say so? Yes, I can. Of course I can.

                    Its called “disagreeing” with what the other person is speaking of, and countering. Its a discussion.

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                  Absolutely not true. Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen. Momentary action with no visual cue before or after. Why are you arguing this useless point?

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                    11 months ago

                    Absolutely not true. Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen. Momentary action with no visual cue before or after. Why are you arguing this useless point?

                    The person dropping to the ground dead would be the visual cue.