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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by cheald on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:22PM (#40108890)
It's an interesting observation, but I couldn't replicate this by taking a photo of a Google Images search for "north face logo", or with a photo of the reddit user's photo. Pixel 7, stock Camera app. The photo turns out as expected.
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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by krasin on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:33PM (#40108974)
> It's an interesting observation, but I couldn't replicate this by taking a photo of a Google Images search for "north face logo"

Low-level artifacts for screen photos are different, so whatever neural net messes things up here, acts differently.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by cheald on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:08PM (#40109275)
Well, naturally, but neural nets are pretty good at feature extraction even in the presence of noise. I also just printed out his unblurred example at a scale approximating a real logo and took a photo of it. Came out just fine.
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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by fullshark on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:52PM (#40109135)
I didn’t think much either until I saw this photo he shared in the comments:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

Seems to be more than a one off odd photo and an artifact of something the pixel does re: image processing.

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Re:Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North F... by saurik on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:28PM (#40108939)
I wouldn't expect this to be a very good test as I'd think the camera could easily tell the difference between taking a picture of a screen and taking a picture of a jacket.
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