Tag Archives: computational photography

There used to be a time when a photo could be taken as a mirror of reality. It is no longer so, as pointed out in a nice Wired article “None of your photos are real“. I read it a few hours after having written yesterday post, Fake Fakes, and …

It  has been on many newspapers in the last two days and -most likely- you  already  saw it, so I am not publishing it as a “news” just as further evidence that Generative AI has reached a quality  level au pair with that reached by the very best humans in …

I still remember the awe of looking up at the sky on a very dark night. I was in Bora Bora, some 50 years ago, laying on a deserted beach and looking upward. I think I kept looking at the sky for hours. There were no lights around, not just …

I have posted recently some discussion on the progress of AI in the area of image creation. It started few years ago entering photo editing programs (Luminar is a good example of a photo editor making intensive use of AI), then it made possible the creation of images from a …

  Computational Digital Photography has become possible thanks to better and better hardware, particularly the ever more powerful microprocessor chips. Nowadays most photos are taken, and processed in smartphones, hence the progress of hardware in this area is leading to better and better computational photography. In the last few weeks …

Following up on yesterday’s post, Judd Heape, Qualcomm, sees four stages of AI penetration in digital photography: Scene recognition (like landscape, portrait, night, …). This lets AI tune the camera to get a best fit. It is a very low degree of smartness, coupled with a very low degree of …

Well, digital cameras killed film cameras some 20 years ago (it took a decade for film camera to disappear but 20 years ago the trend was already clear…), now it is the turn of Computational Photography to kill, once and for all, the Digital camera market. Again, it will take …

Our eyes are pretty good to see in the dark, during night time. Not as good as several other (nocturnal) species but quite good if you compare them to a digital camera. Actually, most of the caoability to recignise objects in the dark is not rooted in out eyes but …

In 2017 Nikon released the D850, the very best camera on the market according to qualified expert like DP Review. And I bought it. In 2018, less than a year after I bought this top of the line camera, Nikon released their first mirror-less camera: lighter, faster and fully software …

2 and a half years ago I published a post on a Samsung beginning the production of a new digital sensor designed to fit smartphones’ cameras. It had 108 million pixels making the point that resolut6ion (image definition, in other words the capability of the sensors to capture more and …