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News & ArtsWednesday, February 24, 2010
Crime Police Will Know You by Your Tattoo
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Your tattoo?
- Chilli Photography
Hokoyo!
He was discovered by the police around 8 p.m. Tuesday, lying in the snow in Harlem, unresponsive. The police did not know who he was or how he got there.Then the detectives noticed a word — bhood — tattooed on his arm. Within minutes, they had the man’s name and a contact number, and in short time, even his history of seizures.
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The article notes that databases are of legible words or descriptive words related to documented tattoos.
Seems to me it would be faster and more accurate (civil-liberties concerns notwithstanding) to archive digital images of visible tattoos. Surely there is software out there that can isolate (Photoshop Magic-Wand-style) and match portions of images quickly. (Come to think of it, I could use something like that to weed out inferior duplicates in my porn collection.)
Seems to me it would be faster and more accurate (civil-liberties concerns notwithstanding) to archive digital images of visible tattoos. Surely there is software out there that can isolate (Photoshop Magic-Wand-style) and match portions of images quickly. (Come to think of it, I could use something like that to weed out inferior duplicates in my porn collection.)
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Body identification is actually one of the reasons I have a tattoo. Although it's pretty low on the list.
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