AI cameras explained

[Bigneshwar Mohanty]

Welcome Readers!!   

Nowadays smartphone market  is flooded with AI powered camera, not only high end phones even budget phones  like Redmi Y2 Lite, Oppo's Realme are equipped with AI (Artificial Intelligence).

So what do they mean by Artificial  Intelligence, Do cameras got brains? Can cameras think? Is there is a robotic brain inside such camera? 

To answer all such questions finally I thought to write an article so that it would help you guys a lot while comparing smartphones.

 

You might be thinking how do I know ? 

I am currently in final year of my EXTC engineering at V.E.S. Institute of Technology, (Chembur)  Mumbai. I spend a large fraction of my college days in programming ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) . I also elected Neural Networks as my elective subject. I am currently working on a project which uses Artificial Intelligence to  help banks, commercial organizations to automate their day to day work.

I won't be going deep in to  the concept but I will try to answer in very simple language.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)  

AI in simple terms can be thought as of a technique that makes a component (eg: camera hardware) to think. That's true we make components to think !

We first train a component to learn, during  training we feed the components with data captured by a sensor. Using the data and various Algorithms the described component thinks on the account of data (or past experience) and then decides to take a step!

Inshort, with time AI improves it's functioning as it develops a large database of past experience (data).

It means that performance of AI camera will increase with time of usage.

What is Computational Photography ?

Computational photography is a digital image processing technique that uses algorithms to replace optical processes, and it seeks to improve image quality by using machine vision to identify the content of an image. It's about taking studio effects that you achieve with Lightroom and Photoshop and making them accessible to people at the click of a button.

For example:

LG’s V30S ThinQ phone allows the user to select a professional image on its Graphy app and apply the same white balance, shutter speed, aperture and ISO. LG also just announced Vision A, an image recognition engine that uses a neural network trained on 100 million images, which recommends how to set the camera. It even detects reflections in the picture, the angle of the shot, and the amount of available light.

A similar technique is used by other manufacturers like Oppo, Xiaomi,etc.

AI is quickly becoming an overused term in the world of photography. Right now it largely applies to smartphone cameras, but the incredible algorithms and sheer level of automated software that the technology is allowing will soon prove irresistible to most of us. It may not be time to chuck out the DSLR quite yet, but AI seems set to change how we take photos. Not only that, but it could soon take charge of editing and curating our existing photography libraries too. It may be over-hyped and often a shorthand for what is nothing more than the latest, greatest advanced software, but AI is going to do something incredible for photographers; it’s going to free-up more of your time so you can take more, and better, photographs.

I tried my best to reduce much of Jargons  and tech related terms. I hope this article  is simple to understand.

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