Phone cameras are not as efficient as the ads have made them out to be.
Samsung is a large technology company.
Samsung’s new Galaxy series phones promise great things with their cameras. The marketing material shows incredibly accurate images, especially of the moon and space.
Internet community Reddit the user claimsthat the images were in reality created by artificial intelligence and proved his claims with a simple test.
The user downloaded a high-resolution image of the moon from the Internet to his computer. After this, he edited the image by blurring it so that the details are no longer available in the image. You can see the edited picture from here.
After aiming the phone’s camera at his computer screen in a dark room, he surprisingly got a clear picture of the moon. This should not have been possible in any way when a picture of a clouded moon was taken once. The user made a video clip of the process, which you can see from here.
– Artificial intelligence does a large part of the work here. There is no way to get such accuracy in the image with optics, the user says.
Samsung admits to using artificial intelligence
When viewed from Earth, the moon is always the same. In this case, the images can be improved with previously taken pictures of the moon.
Samsung said in its Wednesday announcement more specifically, how they utilize artificial intelligence to enhance images.
– Users can turn off the artificial intelligence-based Optimizing the Situation function, in which case the automatic detail improvements in the user’s photo are disabled, Samsung commented to Iltalehti.
Better pictures than with an SLR camera
The situation optimization function, which utilizes an artificial intelligence feature, has been included since the Galaxy S20 series. The feature is also found in all Galaxy Z Fold series.
The Input publication specializing in technology was in early 2021 made a comparison between the company’s previous flagship – Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and Sony’s A7R III full-frame SLR camera. A good quality 200-600mm telezoom lens was purchased for the system camera.
Despite the image stabilization features and efficient optics of a valuable system camera, the camera’s shots were much worse compared to the phone’s camera.
From this, Input made the assumption that the phone must use artificial intelligence to improve its images.
Despite everything, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a part of various applications, and its benefits will come to many uses.