Tag Archives: digital image

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 …

I remember 20 years ago looking in awe at a new Nikon digital camera: it embedded a 5 Mpixel sensor, 5 million pixels! At that time I had a 1.3 Mpixel camera. Now my smartphone has a 12 Mpixel camera (plus another one for selfie). However, even my current 12 …

The magic of computational photography seems to lead to never-ending discovery of creative opportunities. The basic idea behind computational photography is that once you have captured an image in digits you can manipulate those digits in many ways, thus resulting in an image that is both artificial (it could not …

Philosophers have been debating for thousands of years the concept of “truth”. You’ll probably remember Protagoras of Abdera criteria: “Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not” often captured by the sentence: …

Skylum has just announced the future release of Luminar AI, expected later this years, that, as the name suggests, will be making use -heavily- of AI in all stages of photo editing. To advertise their products, and stimulating people to pre-order, they are presenting a number of images showing the …

Look at the photo of this dramatic sunset. You might feel a bit uneasy by the atmosphere that it creates but I am pretty sure you will never worry about your smartphone being scared to the point of panicking and crashing! As a matter of fact this is what happened …

Artificial intelligence is becoming a powerful tool that can be applied to a variety of context. In image processing it is used for a better rendering of the data captured by the digital sensor but it can also be used to work on an image that has been captured with …

It is now a few months since the image of Shanghai taken at a resolution of 195 Gpixels (yes, it is Giga Pixels, you got it right) has appeared on the web. You can get a feeling of what it means by watching the video clip. Even better, go to …

Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? There was some magic implied in asking the mirror who was the most beautiful lady in the kingdom but we took it, as children, as a perfectly natural question to ask a mirror. As we grew up the …

The Digital Transformation with its resulting loss of value (it opens up newer value creation opportunities, as well, and I will consider those later) disrupts business affecting incumbent players and opening the doors to new ones. Disruptions can have different roots that may be difficult to pinpoint. Sometimes it may …