Image enhancement

[panda1986]

can anyone help with this image, he is a serial arsonist?

 

[Fraize]

Possibly. It looks like this image has already been hit hard with several oversharpening filters. Do you have the original?

 

[panda1986]

 

[Lorenathered]

I will also see what I can do with the image.

 

[Fraize]

Wow! What happened to his head? Very weirdly invisible in this shot.

There's probably not much that can be recovered from this.

 

[ReDReq]

Wow! What happened to his head? Very weirdly invisible in this shot.

There's probably not much that can be recovered from this.View attachment 616232

Could be, that he is obscuring it by wearing a mask, or "filter wear" for a purpose. That's my guess.

 

[nao]

Moo..first pic looks like head has duck costume on

 

[Lorenathered]

I did a quick emboss to see what information was there to work with and there is literally nothing detected. I have honestly never seen anything like it. There is literally no head there to enhance. Are there any other photos with this person in the sequence?

 

[Fraize]

Are there any other photos with this person in the sequence?

I was literally just thinking that! My guess is it's a side-effect of some very strong compression that took the island that made up the person's head and, not having detected enough of a change from i-frame to i-frame, re-used a previous frame's block.

Not for nothing, but this just brings back my idea of having a separate forum where we can share our favorite sleuthing tools and techniques!