Hawaii Five-0: 1x09 "Po'ipu" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Trekker4747]

From TV.com:

A security detail member is murdered before he outlines the details of an assassination plot against a ruthless dictator planning to attend an Aid Summit. Five-0 must protect the dictator while investigating the murder.

Po'ipu: To cover over entirely/to overwhelm.

Po'ipu: Also the name of an area in Hawaii. ("Crashing Waves" is the English translation give to this area.)

 

[Star Wolf]

So is Bon Jovi great or not?

We have Chin Ho and Kono starting to talk about blood splatter with computers like they have on the CSI franchise

 

[Owain Taggart]

I didn't really care for this episode for some reason. Found it rather silly how they could print out a profile picture from side shots of that woman.

 

[dru]

Pitiful plot. When is the 'old friend' ever not a turncoat?

 

[Jack Bauer]

I liked it a lot even though it was soooooooo obvious that MacGarret's buddy was going to be behind the assassination plot. That's tv 101 there. Still it was a nice action thriller. Very exciting. Macgarret and Danno are a fun comedy duo. This relationship is really at the heart of the show.

 

[sojourner]

They really need to do a non-case episode so we can get to know the characters. See some more personal time.

 

[Marc]

It seems contradictory on occaions - one episode they interrogate some-one by tyong them to the front of the car the next ep McGarrett's shown ejecting his mag after emptying it. The realistic and the over the top - a strange combination.

 

[cardinal biggles]

The McGarrett/Danno repartee was the only thing that kept this episode from being a total bust. The trusted friend being the bad guy I saw from a mile away. Didn't expect the general to announce he was defecting. As someone over at TVGuide.com pointed out, Steve's neighbors must really love him, what with the machine gun-toting strike team and Molotov Cocktails in the front yard.

 

[Marc]

The McGarrett/Danno repartee was the only thing that kept this episode from being a total bust. The trusted friend being the bad guy I saw from a mile away. Didn't expect the general to announce he was defecting. As someone over at TVGuide.com pointed out, Steve's neighbors must really love him, what with the machine gun-toting strike team and Molotov Cocktails in the front yard.

Got the impression that McGarrett properties was a tad on the islotated side.

 

[sojourner]

^This episode gave the impression that there were some close neighbors.

 

[Star Wolf]

^This episode gave the impression that there were some close neighbors.

On the aerial shot there was a home across the street while Casa McGarrett itself looked almost as impressive as Robin's Nest

 

[Aragorn]

Max Martini goes from playing an elite soldier for four seasons to an elite turncoat guest star every time on TV since.

This is back to the show we started with -- high body count!

Still not sure how Kono is a plainclothes cop on an elite task force right out of the academy though.

 

[Star Wolf]

Still not sure how Kono is a plainclothes cop on an elite task force right out of the academy though.

Its simple, the governor gave McGarrett anything he wants. His father's ex trainee Chin Ho asked for her and since nobody else will work with Chin she got pulled out of standard duty, not to mention the grtand conspiracy of corruption within HPD so any experienced cop is not trusted by McGarrett like the rest of the force does not trust Chin Ho. Similar, but different then any other cop character who goes straight to undercover/detective work

 

[intrinsical]

I didn't really care for this episode for some reason. Found it rather silly how they could print out a profile picture from side shots of that woman.

Actually, its rather plausible. I've done enough computer vision and machine learning stuff that I can think of a few ways to realize it. In fact if I manually do some of the steps, I may even be able to pull it off with just photoshop. So its quite likely someone has actually coded it.

In fact, I did a quick google and one of the first entries was this paper from Texas U "Patch-based Face Recognition From Video". It not only assemble a face from many partial faces in video images, it even does face recognition on the assembled face.
http://cvrc.ece.utexas.edu/Publications/hu_harguess_icip09patchfaces.pdf

 

[sojourner]

^I think the implausible part is that Chin did it. If they had just used a throw away line like "I had the boys in forensics put this together", it would have been fine.

 

[Trekker4747]

Got around to watch this episode. Meh. This series for me is fun escapist entertainment but hardly, really, "must see."

 

[Star Wolf]

^I think the implausible part is that Chin did it. If they had just used a throw away line like ;I had the boys in forensics put this together;, it would have been fine.

They have not yet said what Chin Ho did before being retired early. After walking Kono through the crime scene it seems he is like the CSIs/detectives on CSI Miami or New York.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I didn't really care for this episode for some reason. Found it rather silly how they could print out a profile picture from side shots of that woman.

Actually, its rather plausible. I've done enough computer vision and machine learning stuff that I can think of a few ways to realize it. In fact if I manually do some of the steps, I may even be able to pull it off with just photoshop. So its quite likely someone has actually coded it.

In fact, I did a quick google and one of the first entries was this paper from Texas U "Patch-based Face Recognition From Video". It not only assemble a face from many partial faces in video images, it even does face recognition on the assembled face.
http://cvrc.ece.utexas.edu/Publications/hu_harguess_icip09patchfaces.pdf

Right, I know that it can technically be done, but it was all in the way it was actually presented that made it really sound silly. I mean, we're shown a side shot of her and we're supposed to believe they got a front shot of her out of it.

 

[Star Wolf]

It seems contradictory on occaions - one episode they interrogate some-one by tyong them to the front of the car the next ep McGarrett's shown ejecting his mag after emptying it. The realistic and the over the top - a strange combination.

I think Alex went to Captain Dale Dye's Hollywood boot camp and/or they are listening to the technical advisor on the "SEAL scenes". But then they miss some things like Lt Cmdr McGarrett not shaving when donning the uniform for a cop's funeral or having him serve a three year tour in Afghanistan with the turncoat mercenary

 

[intrinsical]

I didn't really care for this episode for some reason. Found it rather silly how they could print out a profile picture from side shots of that woman.

Actually, its rather plausible. I've done enough computer vision and machine learning stuff that I can think of a few ways to realize it. In fact if I manually do some of the steps, I may even be able to pull it off with just photoshop. So its quite likely someone has actually coded it.

In fact, I did a quick google and one of the first entries was this paper from Texas U "Patch-based Face Recognition From Video". It not only assemble a face from many partial faces in video images, it even does face recognition on the assembled face.
http://cvrc.ece.utexas.edu/Publications/hu_harguess_icip09patchfaces.pdf

Right, I know that it can technically be done, but it was all in the way it was actually presented that made it really sound silly. I mean, we're shown a side shot of her and we're supposed to believe they got a front shot of her out of it.

Maybe its because its somewhat close to my field of research in the past, but I distinctly heard Chin Ho said something about using both left and right sides of her face, as well as various bits and pieces from all the video that they had to assemble her photo. The end result of Chin Ho's work was a black/white image, not even greyscale. He did not just pull out the frontal shot with just the partial left side of her face. That, I agree, would have been impossible even with state of the art computer science research.

And honestly, this can be done manually with photoshop. All you need is a few hours, use a good mouse to cut out her face, use the warp tool to adjust the patches into a frontal view and layer all the various pieces together, and content fill the gaps and edges. The right software just automates most of this process.