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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by shawnz on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:45PM (#29743898)
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.
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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by kelnos on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:39PM (#29744963)
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.
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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by shawnz on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:40PM (#29750352)
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.
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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:05PM (#29744764)
> 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

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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by mynameisvlad on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:14PM (#29744824)
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.
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Re:iPhone camera app replaces person’s head with a leaf in p... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:29PM (#29744917)
I mean to illustrate the attitude of a typical user, not technology
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