🌕 Samsung’s answer to moon hoaxes

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SamsungMoon photos were in the spotlight earlier this week, following revelations about the Redditor’s experiment Some results are suspicious. Now, Samsung has answered this (sort of).

The experiment and its results

• Reditor ibreakphotos Post an experience They displayed a blurry 170 by 170 image of the Moon on their computers.
• From here, they stood on the other side of their room and zoomed in on the blurry image Galaxy phone.
• The phone recognized the hazy moon on PC as the actual moon, and made some interesting adjustments (as seen in the image above).
• More specifically, the Samsung phone actually seems to be adding details like the etched surface of the moon to the blurry image.
• The user even pasted a small gray square into the image of the faded, but moon Samsung phone still add moon details to the gray box.

What does it mean?

• This experience called into question the accuracy of Samsung’s moon shots in the first place.
• The company previously said that it uses multi-frame processing along with an AI model trained on images of the moon to help capture these shots.
• But this story suggests that phones add details that aren’t visible in the first place.
• After all, how do you get more Details about a low-resolution blurry image of the moon?
• You can disable the AI ​​Scene Optimizer mode to get an accurate picture, but the experience still raises questions.

Samsung replied

• The Galaxy maker has since released a localized 2022 Korean version blog post To explain how the moon photography function works.
• Obviously, much of the information here is not new, such as its use of Super accuracy Technology, multi-frame processing and moon recognition via Scene Optimizer.
• Samsung also confirms that it uses an “AI detail enhancement engine to effectively eliminate residual noise and further improve image detail.”
• There is a big difference between enhancing detail and intentionally adding new details to a blurry image.
• But this translated post still admits to deceptive results.
• The company concludes, “Samsung continues to improve the Scene Optimizer to reduce any potential confusion that may occur between the act of taking a photo of the real moon and a photo of the moon.”
• The company also issued a response to Tom guideAnd Emphasizing that he was not using image overlays.
• But is this just a case of semantics? There might not be an overlay for the images, but he was adding a mask or filter into the mix?
• Either way, we’re currently running a survey asking our readers Whether they care that their moon shots are generated by artificial intelligence.
• There’s an interesting dichotomy here, which suggests that at least some of you just want a pretty picture of the moon.
• You can also check out our list of The best camera phones If you want great shots in general.

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Hadley Simmons, editor