A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
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A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
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Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#2The article says that “The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment.” But that doesn’t make any sense. If the there were three real people, rather than one person and two reflections, the algorithm would have created an image of a moment that never existed, stitching together different images taken at different times. The only difference is that we might not notice and mistake the fake image for what we expect from a old-fashioned photograph. I find what Apple is doing repulsive.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#3I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6
If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied.
Computational photography is really awesome and modestly worrisome.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#4The article says that “The final composite image should be the best, most realistic interpretation of that moment.” But that doesn’t make any sense. If the there were three real people, rather than one person and two reflections, the algorithm would have created an image of a moment that never existed, stitching together different images taken at different times. The only difference is that we might not notice and mi…
Imagine such an image being used as evidence is a court case. E.g. showing someone pointing a gun at another person when that actually never happened.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#5This is Apple so we like to call it a reality-distortion effect.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#6So this wasn't just rolling shutter?
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#7I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6 If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied. Computational photography is really aw…
That’s due to basic denoising, not anything more advanced. I have photos from my iPhone 6s circa 2016 that look similar when you zoom in.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#8I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6 If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied. Computational photography is really aw…
This effect likely resulted from aggressive noise filtering. You can probably reduce the amount of filtering in the settings.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#9I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6 If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied. Computational photography is really aw…
It looks like it's treating the deer and wall as the same subject, averaging the texture, and applying it to both.
Re: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
#10I had a related experience with my Pixel 7 a few months ago. In this picture of a deer: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qChwaw9C29WVdAmr6 If you zoom in, you'll note that .. everything at a detail level looks like an oil painting, especially the deer's face and the wall behind it. Very weird effect, and that's certainly not what the wall or deer actually look like. No filters applied. Computational photography is really aw…
That’s due to basic denoising, not anything more advanced. I have photos from my iPhone 6s circa 2016 that look similar when you zoom in.
interesting - thank you!