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Renjuro t1_ir37zs6 wrote

Reply to comment by Reddituser8018 in See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop by unheated1

What are you talking about? Forensic scientists rebuild faces from skulls of the recently deceased all the time. It’s used for body identification.

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[deleted] t1_ir3kk7e wrote

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adinfinitum225 t1_ir3nt58 wrote

They can't give anything pictures if they don't know who the body belongs to

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JeffieSandBags t1_ir3sxr1 wrote

How can you know who it is if you never got pictures of em?!?

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[deleted] t1_ir4byto wrote

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Tiny_Rat t1_ir4jaom wrote

No, these reconstructions are done by forensic artists, not AI and they're most often used in canvassing for information, basically hoping someone sees the reconstruction and recognizes them.

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Dizzy_Duck_811 t1_ir4fs1t wrote

The forensic science is doing experiments on real dead bodies. I can’t remember what they call it, but the people who donate their bodies to science, are worked on by different departments. They watch in real time how long it takes for a body to decompose under different circumstances, and they go from there with their discoveries. They can come quite close to what a person might look. It’s not perfect, but it’s something.

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