Chapter 122

The victim looked to be in her early thirties, with a sweet appearance and dressed appropriately. Her exposed half-arm was white and tender, like a radish that had been peeled.

Jiang Yuan saw her anxious expression and guessed that her case shouldn't be too serious.

He had seen many victims now; when it really came to homicides, they all had expressions of sorrow, numbness, and despair, and punishing criminals was all to remedy the sorrow.

Instead, victims who looked very anxious were often involved in cases that the criminal police were not very anxious about.

Of course, the two colleagues doing imaging in front of him looked quite anxious. If it weren't for his newly acquired skills, Jiang Yuan would have been more likely to put down the eggs and leave.

"Eat a red egg, smoke a cigarette." Jiang Yuan walked up with a smile and handed over the basket.

"Oh, Wu Wu Fa Yi Jiang. I heard you're back, I was too busy to notice." There were three people in the imaging office in total, one more than those doing trace examination, but they were all young people wearing nearsighted glasses. The one speaking was the first-generation "Four-Eyes" Zhuang Wei. When he reported to the county bureau more than ten years ago, there was no one in the criminal police team who wore glasses for a long time, so he was nicknamed "Four-Eyes."

Now, after so many years, Zhuang Wei was still a young man in the criminal police team, but the nickname "Four-Eyes" had been shattered and could no longer be exclusive.

"This trip involved quite a few homicides, my master asked me to send some red eggs to everyone on the first floor. The cigarettes were also placed on yellow paper and burned." Jiang Yuan said while handing out cigarettes.

The three people in the imaging office all came over to take them. The two senior police officers lit their cigarettes and noticed the lady next to them frowning, so they quickly put them away.

The youngest police officer, the third-generation "Four-Eyes" Gao Yuan Jiansheng, lit his cigarette slowly instead. Although he was young, he was a local, had long been married, was knowledgeable, and was the least moved.

Unlike the two old bachelors in the office, who didn't even dare to smoke a cigarette when they saw a beautiful woman of similar age.

"What does it mean to have cigarettes placed on yellow paper?" The lady saw that the recording was paused, and since being anxious was useless, she asked curiously instead.

"It just means rolling the cigarette on yellow paper." Jiang Yuan took out the cigarette case, placed it on the table, flipped it over, and rolled it again.

The lady understood a little, but also didn't quite understand.

"You want to get a clearer image of this person?" Jiang Yuan pouted and asked another question.

In the coming days, if he wanted to be able to do imaging conveniently, he would still need to have a good relationship with his colleagues in the imaging office.

First-generation "Four-Eyes" Zhuang Wei said "En": "This person should be a repeat offender, very skilled at stealing things, and knows how to hide from the cameras. We're thinking of getting a clearer photo and taking it to the nearby police station to ask; maybe someone will recognize him."

"There aren't many thieves stealing things on the street now." Jiang Yuan commented.

Zhuang Wei nodded in agreement and sighed: "It's about the same as the left-behind elderly in rural areas. The younger ones, those with the ability to learn, either went to do telecom fraud or retired from the circle. The ones left are those who are unwilling to learn new things, can't learn them, can't make money, aren't willing to find a proper job, and aren't even willing to go to big cities."

"Normal, older people don't even like to travel, let alone go to other places to steal things." Third-generation "Four-Eyes" Gao Yuan Jiansheng had life experience now.

"I can do image enhancement, shall I strengthen the image for you?" Jiang Yuan said a couple of polite words and stated his purpose directly.

First-generation "Four-Eyes" Zhuang Wei frowned slightly. He had been doing imaging for more than ten years and had rarely been intruded upon in his professional field, so he looked at Jiang Yuan and asked: "Forensic doctors also study imaging?"

"I learned it incidentally when I was doing fingerprints before." Jiang Yuan said the trick without minding at all: "Using image enhancement technology to process fingerprint images and then doing fingerprints, the efficiency and accuracy will be a bit higher."

"Really or fake..." Zhuang Wei said, but he gave up the seat in front of the computer.

He actually wanted to see what the recently famous newcomer forensic doctor Jiang Yuan wanted to do.

Jiang Yuan sat down without hesitation, looked at the surveillance footage in front of him, and asked: "Is any image okay? As long as the face can be seen clearly?"

"As long as the face can be recognized. We were just following the clothes." In fact, following surveillance tracking is not a very simple matter.

First of all, surveillance footage is never all-encompassing without blind spots. Most art galleries and museums cannot achieve this, let alone on the streets.

Of course, some streets in some cities might be able to do it, and in such places, thefts usually don't happen.

Secondly, walking on the street, there will definitely be obstacles, sometimes tree branches, sometimes vehicles, sometimes there are too many people and the person being watched is too short. Plus, entering buildings and vehicles, it is still very hard to follow through surveillance footage all the way.

Of course, except for "simps"!

This also has to take into account that the person being watched is consciously on guard.

For example, a disappearance in a blind spot might consume an hour or two of the imaging police officer's time to search.

It can be said that Zhuang Wei and others chose to follow the surveillance video and then search for high-definition cameras all the way to cut out suitable high-definition images; this path was not wrong, it was just a waste of manpower, time, and energy.

Many people who lost their mobile phones and reported the case to the police station always thought that they could find them by looking at the surveillance footage; many times, they often overestimated the ability of the police officers handling the case, as well as their patience and determination.

And for Jiang Yuan, this process was completely unnecessary.

Zhuang Wei and others only chose a clumsy method because their technical level was insufficient and their "flirting" strength was not enough.

Jiang Yuan was simple; he directly found a video segment that could expose the suspect's full face, then performed full-video enhancement, then watched it frame by frame, screened out a dozen frames of images, then used image registration, then super-resolution fusion, and finally directly denoised and deblurred.

It was only a quarter of an hour, and using the software already in the computer, finally, in Photoshop, the suspect's face shape and expression gradually emerged.

The computer's manic working time didn't even exceed 5 minutes.

The lady who was the victim clapped her hands happily and nodded repeatedly: "It's also played like this on TV, I just said so, they just said there wasn't any."

Zhuang Wei and the others next to him had long been watching with their mouths wide open.

This kind of story that exists on TV but not in reality is like watching the Dakar Rally; you know how they drive, but what does that have to do with your daily driving? Is your car good enough? Or is your technique good enough, or is your passenger good enough?

Those who do imaging are even more so.

In recent years, image investigation has become a popular subject. Image investigators with slightly better technology can really solve cases when they are pulled out.

This kind of thing last happened because the concept of DNA had not yet been popularized.

But even the image investigation team of the provincial bureau, while Jiang Yuan was participating in the fingerprint competition, watched him do image enhancement and were just as stunned. And at that time, Jiang Yuan had mastered the Lv3 image enhancement skill.

In other words, Lv3 image enhancement could beat the provincial bureau's image investigation. Lv5 image enhancement... Jiang Yuan couldn't even show his full form this time.

This is also because the skills required for image investigation are too hardcore and too popular.

Hardcore means it has high requirements for basic subjects, and thus high academic requirements for related practitioners. And with high academic qualifications, there are too many jobs to choose from, and they are good at taking exams. In this era where you have to pass exams to get in, even if they like the establishment, they might not choose to be police officers.

On the other hand, if you want to make money, when you have mastered top-notch imaging technology in the industry, that is, the Lv3 level, the returns you can get from various big internet companies or professional companies are a hundred times that of a police officer.

Even saying, if you really want to devote yourself to criminal science and technology, just finding a company that sells surveillance equipment would be easier and more profitable. If your strength is a bit stronger, the significance of doing big data is even greater. Small counties like Ningtai haven't covered surveillance on main streets, and they only need two images to work. If it were Changyang City or a larger city, the brigade-scale image investigation wouldn't be enough.

Even image investigation brigades at the district level have become popular in many cities. But in the final analysis, with the increase in the number of surveillance cameras, it is impossible to watch them with the human eye; whether it is data processing or identification, technology is needed to solve it.

In this environment, it is impossible for the imaging studio of the Ningtai County Bureau to have geniuses at a high-precision level.

It's like everyone is a beast of burden, and the beast of burden in the image investigation profession is equivalent to a horse.

Other professions use donkeys, mules, and oxen, all of which can produce some diligent, hardworking, and at the same time excellent players.

But the profession that uses horses won't work. Those that run fast, look beautiful, have long legs, big chests, long hair, no hair, fat butts... no matter which quality is excellent, they will definitely be taken away by other places. Even the dwarf type can be used as a pet horse.

Therefore, to put it more nicely, whether it is Zhuang Wei in his thirties or Gao Yuan Jiansheng in his twenties, they are all "dull horses."

A state where age increases but the breed doesn't change.

"Print it out?" Jiang Yuan, the race-level long-legged horse, finished the image and turned to ask the few people.

"Oh, okay, print it out." Zhuang Wei was still a bit stunned.

With a clattering sound, a photo of the suspect with a nose and eyes was printed out.

The clarity of the photo itself was average, and the printer was also lagging, but the face inside could still be seen clearly; if it was only used for passing around, it should be enough.

Jiang Yuan picked up the remaining eggs, said "I still have to go to other offices," and went to get busy.

The few people in the imaging office looked at each other, and none of them had woken up from the fact that they were "dull horses."

The lady who reported the case stood up, revealing a light yellow hip-hugging skirt and even whiter legs. She shouted enthusiastically: "Comrade police, can I add you on WeChat?"

"You can just find them if you have anything, I'm a forensic doctor." Jiang Yuan handed the lady a red egg and left.

The lady held the egg, and it took her several seconds to realize what the forensic doctor meant. Her hand loosened, and the egg shattered.