![]() Google has also trained its AI sights on making photos more “realistic,” as opposed to entirely new versions of reality. What will the next generation bring? It’s hard to say, but my guess is more. As chips and capabilities continue to excel, so too will their breadth and influence. Some of the features are fun, some are practical, but all of them move toward the same direction one where AI, not the photographer, is at the steering wheel. Inverse editor, James Pero, zooming on Apollo’s Ghost e-scooter. The results are fun to witness was I going 5 mph or 50 in this Action Pan picture below? I’ll never tell. Similarly, features like Action Pan are designed to convey motion, giving photos snapped of moving subjects a blurred background, while retaining the focus on a chosen protagonist. That level of reality retcon may not be novel in the world of software, but for a smartphone, it’s a significant step. While Apple focuses its Bionic chip more on background features that brighten, colorize, and stabilize photos or video in key moments, Google sometimes brings computational photography to the forefront.įeatures like Magic Eraser, for example, imbue Photoshop-level editing into smartphone photography, allowing users to scrub undesired subjects from their pictures. The quality of smartphone cameras has exploded over the last decade, and as pressure to keep that train moving in the right direction mounts (new phones need better cameras to justify yet another generation of hardware), tech giants like Apple and Google have turned inward to develop their own vertically integrated chips: the Bionic and Tensor, respectively.īoth are specifically designed to advance mobile machine learning, but differ in their implementation. And if this year’s Pixel generation is any indication, Google has no intention of slowing that roll. While computational photography isn’t new - it’s why Apple got away with retaining the same megapixel camera in its iPhone for years - Google has been far and away the most enthusiastic of all smartphone companies when it comes to pushing the boundaries. If all goes as planned, pictures should be sharper and less apt to end up in your memory graveyard. This AI superpower also extends to new photos as well: the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro use information from the main and ultrawide cameras in concert, taking images from both sensors and meshing them together to give you a (hopefully superior) photo stew. ![]() The Pixel 7 continued the trend of going all in on AI camera features.
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