Working with researchers at MIT, Google has created AI-based software that can greatly enhance the quality of smartphone photos by tweaking their settings ahead of time. The system uses machine learning to figure out how aspects like saturation and brightness should change for every single shot.
The end result is significantly higher-quality photos that look closer to what you'd see from professional photographers.
Systems of this kind typically require data processing that isn't suitable for mobile devices. In this case, the Google/MIT system tries to imitate the adjustments made by others. The machine learning algorithms analyzed the differences between the raw and final images in 5,000 cases to figure out what adjustments were being made.
This technology has the potential to be very useful for real-time image enhancement on mobile platforms. This paper may provide us with a way to sidestep these issues and produce new, compelling, real-time photographic experiences without draining your battery or giving you a laggy viewfinder experience.- Jon Barron, Google
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