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๐ด Hey! I woke up with a stiff neck for the first time in six months. You know you’re getting older when you hurt yourself in your sleep. Anyway, there’s a lot to cover in The Daily Authority today.
Samsung moon photo sender
Samsung’s moon photos gained attention earlier this week after a Redditor’s test showed some fishy results. Now, Samsung has responded to the issue (sort of).
The experiment and the results
- Redditor ibreakphotos posted an experiment in which he displayed a 170 x 170 blurred image of the moon on his computer.
- From here, they stood on the other side of their room and zoomed in on the blurry image on their Galaxy phone.
- The phone recognized the blurry moon on the PC as the real moon and made some interesting adjustments (as seen in the image above).
- Specifically, the Samsung phone appears to have added details such as a cracked moon surface to the blurred photo.
- The user pasted a small gray square into the blurry moon outline, but the Samsung phone still added the moon details to the gray square.
what does that mean?
- This test first cast doubt on the accuracy of Samsung’s lunar shots.
- The company previously said it uses multi-frame processing in conjunction with an AI model trained on moon photos to capture these moments.
- But this saga suggests that the phones are adding details that were not visible in the first place.
- After all, how do you get it? More Details on a low resolution moon image?
- You can disable the AI-driven Scene Optimizer mode to get an accurate photo, but the test still raises questions.
Samsung’s response
- The Galaxy maker has released a translated version of a 2022 Korean blog post to explain how the moon photography function works.
- Much of the information here is not new, such as the use of super-resolution technology, multi-frame processing, and moon detection via the Scene Optimizer.
- Samsung reiterates that it uses an AI detail enhancement engine to effectively remove residual noise and further enhance image details.
- But there’s a big difference between enhancing details and adding new details to an intentionally blurred photo.
- But this translated post still receives failed results.
- “Samsung continues to improve Scene Optimizer to reduce any possible confusion between capturing an image of the real moon and an image of the moon,” the company concludes.
- The company responded Tom’s guideSaying it’s not using image overlays.
- But is this simply a matter of interpretation? Maybe not overlapping images, but adding a mask or filter to the mix?
- Either way, we’re currently running a poll to ask readers if they care if their moon shots are AI-generated.
- Here’s an interesting breakdown that suggests at least some of you just want a pretty moon photo.
- If you’re looking for great photos in general, you can check out our list of the best camera phones.
Thursday thing
How crazy is this? Polish Red Bull Air Race pilot Luc Zepila has pulled off the crazy feat of landing on the helipad of a 56-storey building in Dubai.
The pilot has achieved more than 650 practice runs on a traditional landing strip, attempting to land within a 27m diameter block representing the helipad. It works for some hair transplants.
have a great day!
Hadlee Simons, editor