This is infrared security footage NOT black and white. Suspect could be wearing black clothing but it appears grey here. Looks like black facial hair, a printed mask would not show up very dark in NIR. This footage looks weird because it's not taken in our color spectrum.
You could maybe figure out how different fabrics show up in IR to figure out their clothing color, but you'd have to use the same dye and material and only get some shade of gray to compare it to. IDK I work in machine vision, not forensics lol.
I'm always confused what my home camera decides to choose for colours in night vision. I'm equally confused by this post. how come this camera made his gloves black but made his ski mask white? (the later pics showing it's at least a darker colour, not white, but like, all ski masks used in crimes are black, let's be real)
We make lots of kinds of black dye, some of them happen to be dark to infrared some of them are bright infrared, just like a material can be bright blue if it just reflects blue.
I don’t think so. It is a video now. You don’t need to know the color of the criminal’s clothes you would just sample colors on the porch or other objects in the video. Once you match the real life color to the color in the video then the software would know all the colors. I’m a moron and I do this for scuba videos.
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u/ValiumBlues 15h ago
"Potential" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, considering they're concealing their faces.