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CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months agoAbsolutely 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.
Not if he’s off screen. It’s only a visual cue if it’s captured by the video.
If you have a separate video of the guy falling over dead, you can use that video to get a window of time to view in the other video, but one video that captures only parts of the scene can easily leave you with no visual cues.
nexguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…well offscreen… wow
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If its all offscreen, then WTF are we bothing to talk about?
nexguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is this on purpose?
The shooter is on screen the victim is not.
This is on purpose isn’t it. You’re fucking with me.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sorry, I thought you were saying that the guy walking by was off screen, and the person on screen was shot, since the focus of the conversation was about binary search based on what’s on the video.
In that case the shooter, walking up and then holding up a gun and pulling the trigger would be the marker, as well as the puff of smoke, for the binary search, which could be done with AI, if not human eyes.
Also they would know the approximate time of death, so they can use that to extrapolate a range on the video that they need to binary search on. I’m pretty sure this is normal police work that I’m describing at this point.
Having said that, that’s one hell of a hypothetical you made there. At some point you could definitely come up with an example of when a binary search wouldn’t work, but not based on what the OP was discussing, or what others were discussing about two people having a fight on camera.