Software company Glass Imaging has developed incredible technology that dramatically improves image quality, especially when working with small image sensors and lenses like those found in smartphones. At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii this week, Glass Imaging demonstrated in real time what GlassAI technology can accomplish, and the results are remarkable.
“Today’s demonstration leverages the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform to capture large amounts of RAW images from an Android camera and process them using a custom trained neural network specific to that camera to extract as much detail as possible. “We have demonstrated our ability to do this,” says Tom. Dr. Bishop, Founder and CTO of Glass Imaging.
“The end result was an incredibly detailed image quality previously unavailable, and without the hallucinatory effects often associated with generative neural networks and on-device upsampling.”
Glass Imaging’s demo pitted the standard iPhone 16 Pro Max against Qualcomm’s smartphone reference device. This reference device runs GlassAI on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform, powering GlassAI’s Neural Image Signal Processing (ISP) platform. As a result, you will immediately notice an improvement in image quality.
These image quality improvements are similar to: petapixel We’ve seen them before, including in person at Glass Imaging’s headquarters.
What makes the latest demonstration different, and perhaps more impressive, is that it was performed live on stage using a smartphone reference device that is essentially the same as what consumers can buy.
“Snapdragon 8 Elite opens up new possibilities for AI on mobile devices,” said Ziv Attar, founder and CEO of Glass Imaging. “This new generation allows us to run much larger and more sophisticated neural networks on the fly, allowing GlassAI to create a new paradigm for what smartphone cameras can achieve in terms of sharpness, resolution, and sharpness. Masu.”
GlassAI processing can be performed on devices using the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform. Works with the latest Qualcomm Spectra ISP and improved Hexagon RAW image Direct Link. Photos processed with GlassAI are output as full RGB images with all noise reduction, sharpening, and quality enhancement processing performed. GlassAI Neutral ISP addresses sensor-level effects such as lens aberrations and crosstalk.
Glass Imaging recently announced an expanded $9.3 million seed funding round led by Google Ventures (GV) and is committed to improving its technology and expanding its real-world applications.
Computational photography will be a key driver for improving smartphone image quality, given that smartphone manufacturers do not necessarily want to increase the size of camera modules too much, as it would compromise the practicality of smartphones. .
Although the latest development is on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform, GlassAI is not limited to that particular smartphone platform or smartphone in any way. GlassAI’s impact will probably be felt most clearly when working with devices with small image sensors, but the technology can be deployed in any camera system, large or small.
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