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Google has released three experimental apps developed by its researchers:
Each of the world's approximately two billion smartphone owners is carrying a camera capable of capturing photos and video of a tonal richness and quality unimaginable even five years ago. Until recently, those cameras behaved mostly as optical sensors, capturing light and operating on the resulting image's pixels. The next generation of cameras, however, will have the capability to blend hardware and computer vision algorithms that operate as well on an image's semantic content, enabling radically new creative mobile photo and video applications.
Today, we're launching the first installment of a series of photography appsperiments: usable and useful mobile photography experiences built on experimental technology. Our "appsperimental" approach was inspired in part by Motion Stills, an app developed by researchers at Google that converts short videos into cinemagraphs and time lapses using experimental stabilization and rendering technologies. Our appsperiments replicate this approach by building on other technologies in development at Google. They rely on object recognition, person segmentation, stylization algorithms, efficient image encoding and decoding technologies, and perhaps most importantly, fun!
Storyboard turns video into comic book style panels, Selfissimo! allows you to take selfie "photoshoots", and Scrubbies allows you to create video loops.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 13 2017, @01:17AM (2 children)
I think the smartphone can indeed be a good lab to try new techniques. For example, I heard about a different approach than the current sequence of frames. A sensor which "spots differences" and sends only those to an encoder might sidestep some small sensor / unstable movement limitations and yield good quality video at low bitrates efficiently encoded.
Bigger cameras, much cooler but usually not very programmable, will have to benefit from the R&D later.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday December 13 2017, @02:46AM (1 child)
It would be if it were as accessible as you seem to suggest. But these are encapsulated camera and software packages that the best you can do is get the full res images after the fact and play games with them.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @06:27AM
Too bad, then we are back to raspberry and odroids with webcam modules or dashcam with reverse engineered firmware.