The Somerton Man Mystery:
World First AI Images...
World First AI Images...
The image on the left above is the one that most will be familiar with, it is from the original inquest file of the Somerton Man and it's the full-face view of the man.
The image of the plaster bust above is from the IEEE Spectrum magazine which was issued in March 2023.
The original post-autopsy photograph has evidence of 'post mortem bloating', it occurs some hours after the autopsy and has the effect of 'puffing out' the face as you will no doubt be able to see in the comparisons above.
With the bloating removed, we get a far clearer image of just how the Somerton Man may have looked in life.
Is it a 100% likeness? I really can't say but I can see the likeness between the 3 images and I can also say that having observed a number of bodies and post mortems in an earlier life, this to my eyes, is a reasonable likeness of the man. There is even a likeness between these images and the ones posted some weeks ago on this blog:
The image to the left was created by artist Teresa Cowley some years ago. Here's the link to Teresa's earlier post and which appeared in a post on this blog some weeks ago.
https://artdesignbytc.com/
The next step will be to use other software to 'rotate' the man's head so that we can see the side profile which would then confirm that we have a good likeness or not. I hope to get to that this week and will post it here as soon as I have a version to view.
Over the years the issue of just how the man looked when alive has been raised and discussed here numerous times. That’s all part of the continuing efforts to try and identify him, the closer we get to his real ‘live’ appearance then we improve the slim chance that we can get him identified. There are sites like ‘tin eye’ that run photo comparisons against their database of millions of images and that’s the next step.
As AI gets better, the chances are that it’ll get even closer to exactly how he looked when he was alive and kicking. As it I think the photo on the right in the first set is really similar to TSM.
ReplyDeleteAn anonymous commenter left this yesterday:
ReplyDelete'You have no idea what he looked like
Boxall's face was superimposed'
Here's an answer for you:
The post autopsy photographs were taken by Jimmy Durham, he stated as much in his sworn evidence to the coroner, a sworn statement carries the day. Now examine the timeline, the photographs were taken on December 3rd 1948, might be a day out. Alf Boxall did not make his appearance until after the inquest was held in June 1949. Given the sworn statement, and its date, it simply could not be Alf Boxall's face superimposed as you suggest.
When you read the press articles from December 3rd 1948, you will see that the Police referred to a 'reconstructed photograph' that would be made available on December 4th.
When you examine the photograph presented at the 1949 inquest, there are a number of anomalies, there are unexplained markings that were shown and questioned on this blog in September 2013. Here's a link to a number of related posts with images:
https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/search?q=reconstructed
The images leave questions as to what parts of the images were reconstructed and why.
I hope that you find these posts interesting, they contain details that others have copied and regurgitated by others over the years
As an aside, you will see that one of those images, the one in this post:
https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2014/04/somerton-man-why-wasnt-this-image-of.html
appears on a known plagiarist's blog, who used and still uses it without permission or acknowledgement of the source. To use the work of others without permission, is a breach of copyright. It's interesting that those who plagiarise rarely if ever find anything themselves but are 'front and centre' when it comes to unauthorised use and criticising the work of others.
The rule on this blog is that you can use images or content from here provided you acknowledge this blog as the original source.
Every effort is made to adhere to that rule here, if you find an instance where I haven't done that then please point out the particular post and I will rectify it.
Jumped in and searched using tineye, they didn't find a match or even close response here:
ReplyDelete0 matches
TinEye searched over 71.5 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears. TinEye is always crawling, so try your search again soon.
Thanks Josh, getting a match is hard because of angles and lighting, I am looking at the 'rotate' option to see what comes up and will post on that.
ReplyDeleteI see Sanders reached the giddying
ReplyDeleteheight of being a first class private!
A correction for you, as far as I’m aware there’s no such rank as a first class private in the Australian army. There’s Private First Class in the US army also referred to as an E-3. It’s a big day for him on the 11th so let’s wish him and all those who served well which include members of my family, brothers in the RAF and Welsh Guards and an Uncle who gave all whilst serving in the RAAF in WW2. Pete Bowes’ father was in the RAAF as a fighter pilot in WW2. Pete had to put up with a lot of unpleasantness from a certain Cipher Mysteries person some few years ago. Totally uncalled for and that person should still be ashamed.
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