Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor

Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by abainbridge on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:45AM (#15498079)

But a simple histogram stretch can be done with very little processing power by modern standards. 50 ms on one core of the application processor would be enough.

I think they just chose bad examples. The results from this Google Research blog post are much much more impressive:

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/experimental-nightti...

I wish my smartphone could do _that_ automatically.

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Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by dharma1 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:56AM (#15498330)

You end up with a lot more noise with simple histogram adjustment from a single image, plus the dynamic compression to a final 8bit image won't look as good for many use cases.

Exposure fusion from multiple images has much higher usable dynamic range and lower noise.

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Re:Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-proc... by phs318u on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:06AM (#15498142)

Thanks for that. That was amazing.

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