On November 20th Sony announced the established of Sony AI to advance fundamental research and development of AI to be applied to many fields. Their first focus will be on gaming, photography and … gastronomy. I’ll address gastronomy in the next post. That gaming and photography are playing field for Artificial …
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The number of photos taken everyday is mind-boggling. And, to tell the truth, no one knows exactly how many. The info I was able to gather on the web varies widely, from 1 trillion to 15 trillion photos taken in 2018, that means between 2.7 to 41 billion photos every …
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Samsung has announced the availability of two image sensors designed for smartphone cameras, one cramming 48Mpixels on the sensors, the other 64Mpixels. Both have a pixel size of 0.8µm, hence the 64Mpixels sensor is a bit larger in size than its sibling. The small size of the pixel is bound …
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I wrote a post some time ago on the shift towards computational photography. Now I stumbled onto an article pointing out what computational photography might bring in the coming decade (we are just a year away!). Computational photography is the way to make use of data collected by the camera …
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Once upon a time there was photography. It used chemicals on a film. The film got perfected, it was shipped into rolls and that’s probably what most of us called photography. Less than 20 years ago digital photography started to appear. It was called digital photography to distinguish it from …
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The sensor size in a digital camera has a lot to do with the overall quality of the photos that can be taken. Once you fix the size you can play with the number of pixels and their size. You want more resolution (more pixels) you have to have smaller …
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IEEE Future Directions
