Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by kingcharles on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:00PM
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The amount of post-processing your brain does to make you believe you see far more than you actually do in far higher resolution than you do, whilst combining two 2D views into a pseudo-3D view, is incredible.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by Dylan16807 on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:34AM
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That doesn't mean I want a camera to do it. With a bigger sensor I can get a nice crisp image, and that should be the target for what a phone makes.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by kadoban on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:34PM
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There's straight-up blank spots in our raw vision, we don't see ~any color at the edges, etc., and that's just the _start_ of what our eyes/brains elide out. Really crazy stuff.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by shawnz on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:45PM
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As far as I understand the goal of using ML augmentation in camera phones is to capture what the eye sees. It's to compensate for the limitations of the hardware which on its own is not able to produce a true-to-eye result. You seem to be implying that the goal is to improve the photo to be better than reality but I don't think that's the case.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by kelnos on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:39PM
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Right, but it can only guess at what the eye sees when hardware limitations don't allow it to capture enough information. Maybe most of the time it guesses right, but it's still a guess, and it appears sometimes it guesses wrong. Really wrong.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by shawnz on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:40PM
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If it's combining information from multiple shots or multiple camera sensors, isn't that more like sensor fusion than "guessing"? I think calling it guessing is an uncharitable interpretation of what's happening.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:05PM
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> You seem to be implying that the goal is to improve the photo to be better than reality but I don't think that's the case.
I think it is, Afterall that's what all the Instagram filters are for, and that's where most photos end up
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by mynameisvlad on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:14PM
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That's not even remotely close to AI/ML processing, and also is something you have been able to accomplish-- manually or with presets-- in Lightroom for ages.
Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p...
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:29PM
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I mean to illustrate the attitude of a typical user, not technology
I don't think it's unreasonable to allow context of the statement to allow us to disregard "reality" as it pertains to quantum wave functions, in favor of something more human. There's a large difference in something that's goal is to capture what the eye sees and something that's goal isn't. It feels like Apple thinks they know what's better for us than we do, which I admit it's perfectly capable of doing in certain scenarios. But, when Apples thoughts do not align or go directly against our wishes it's uncomfortable, it feels like your "reality" is being ripped from your hands in favor of what some giant corporation thinks your reality should be, for any large number of opaque or intentionally obscured reasons.