From the course: AI in Video Production and Post

A look at smartphone camera AI

From the course: AI in Video Production and Post

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A look at smartphone camera AI

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In this movie we're going to talk about smartphone camera AI. And the reason we're talking about it is I believe that you'll see a lot of this camera AI then move over into video cameras as the technology gets better. So let's talk about the iPhone 10 for a second. Some of you may be familiar with facial recognition. One thing you can do is set up facial recognition by simply rotating your head twice around, and then it's going to register your face and you can use it to unlock your phone. Even better this facial recognition technology also can be used for texting friends and sending them an animoji which is animated and will also give you signs for hearing your voice. Pretty cool stuff. We're talking about camera AI also on the ability of Apple's portrait modes. And what is driven by AI are the lighting solutions in the portrait mode. So one thing it does is because it has two cameras. It actually has a regular camera and a telephoto lens. It takes those two lenses into consideration and then makes sure you have a solid depth of field in your background. Now one thing about this portrait mode that you should know is that you have to be fairly close to your subject, and a little cropping takes place compared to the regular camera in your iPhone. Once you're in portrait mode, you can choose from a variety of different lighting scenarios to capture your subject. Talking about camera AI on the Android perspective, we can't help but talk about the Google Pixel 3. What's amazing about this camera is something called night sight. Now we did an example here at our location, but we filmed in doors, and I did a comparison shot for how the iPhone got this interior that was dimly lit compared to the Google Pixel 3 and its night sight which again uses artificial intelligence to bring up colors in a really dark scene. So there's an example of how camera AI works on both an iOS and Android device.

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