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Phone cameras are very good but owing much of it to the DSP and software. An iPhone camera will not produce iPhone quality photos without the chipset and OS.
by alphabettsy 4y ago
Phone cameras are very good but owing much of it to the DSP and software. An iPhone camera will not produce iPhone quality photos without the chipset and OS.
- aendruk 4y agoThat still leaves the original question of why dedicated cameras aren’t doing this.
- formerly_proven 4y agoThe question of GP wasn't that, but why you can't buy "iPhone image processing pipeline to UVC/USB".
- aendruk 4y agoI think we agree but you don’t understand me.
- dekhn 4y agothere are cameras that do this; there are many UVC USB3 webcams with phone-grade sensors (medium quality).
- aendruk 4y ago“This” refers to the contribution of software processing described above, i.e. explicitly not the matter of sensor quality.
- dekhn 4y agooh, that's for economic reasons. The industrial and desktop consumer computer vision markets are orders of magnitude smaller and their development cycle times orders of magnitude longer. I looked into this a while ago- trying to use gcam technology for scientific imaging- when I worked at Google, and there was zero interest from those teams. They were 100% focused on next-gen camera tech (and it showed- that was the period when phones got unbelievably good at taking high quality images using computational photography).
- sydthrowaway 4y agoProbably cause Big Tech stole all the computer vision and DSP folks