Re:Using a "proper" camera as a webcam
by alphabettsy on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:10PM
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Phone cameras are very good but owing much of it to the DSP and software. An iPhone camera will not produce iPhone quality photos without the chipset and OS.
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That still leaves the original question of why dedicated cameras aren’t doing this.
Re:Using a "proper" camera as a webcam
by sydthrowaway on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @07:59PM
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Probably cause Big Tech stole all the computer vision and DSP folks
Re:Using a "proper" camera as a webcam
by formerly_proven on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:48PM
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The question of GP wasn't that, but why you can't buy "iPhone image processing pipeline to UVC/USB".
I think we agree but you don’t understand me.
there are cameras that do this; there are many UVC USB3 webcams with phone-grade sensors (medium quality).
“This” refers to the contribution of software processing described above, i.e. explicitly not the matter of sensor quality.
oh, that's for economic reasons. The industrial and desktop consumer computer vision markets are orders of magnitude smaller and their development cycle times orders of magnitude longer.
I looked into this a while ago- trying to use gcam technology for scientific imaging- when I worked at Google, and there was zero interest from those teams. They were 100% focused on next-gen camera tech (and it showed- that was the period when phones got unbelievably good at taking high quality images using computational photography).