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Apple's computational photography is absolutely not like some Chinese brands' AI replacement of the moon with an astro-photo. It's just signal processing and cl
by gf000 2y ago
Apple's computational photography is absolutely not like some Chinese brands' AI replacement of the moon with an astro-photo. It's just signal processing and clever use of statistics to extract the maximum amount of signal from the noise.
Yeah, at the last step there is a default filter (that can be changed) and you might not like that, but you can take photos in RAW and change them as you wish after the fact. Sure, the RAW photos are not as 'raw' as there is plenty of processing behind them, but that's also the case with most modern cameras, as far as I know. E.g. is it a lie to use adjacent sensors' data if we know that there is some vibration of the whole sensor? Then we might also call the first photo of a black hole "fake".
- ezst 2y ago> Apple's computational photography is absolutely not like some Chinese brands' AI replacement of the moon with an astro-photo. It's just signal processing and clever use of statistics to extract the maximum amount of signal from the noise. Unless you can back it up by showing me the actual code that's running on those devices, I won't believe you. Keeping an eye on the Halide (an alternative photo app) blog over the years convinced me otherwise.
- gf000 2y agoIn what way? You are making a huge assumption, so you are the one that should bring up some proof. Proving a negative is always harder/impossible.
- ezst 2y agoSure, I didn't have the means to link to them before, but essentially, for every new Apple smartphone released, the halide developers write a lengthy post about the hardware/software novelties on the camera front. You can find some of the made-up AI gibberish and deceptions here for instance: https://www.lux.camera/iphone-13-pro-camera-app-intelligent-photography/ https://www.lux.camera/iphone-13-pro-camera-app-intelligent-...