Artificial Intelligence and machine learning advancements have allowed researchers to build detailed 3D models of real-world locations by using the reference data of thousands of tourists' photos. The finished models have cleanly removed unwanted objects and even normalized lighting conditions.
Happy that your photos are safe online hidden behind aggressive watermarking? Maybe it's time to reconsider. New Google research shows that a lot of watermarks, including those used by major stock websites, can be easily removed automatically by computers. But there's a way to prevent it.
When Google software engineer Florian Kainz showed his friends on the Gcam team a nightscape he captured using his fancy Canon 1DX, they threw down the gauntlet. Take that same photo, they challenged him, but with a smartphone camera instead. He accepted, and succeeded.
Google scientists are brewing technology that could one day help you to "enhance!" photos with sharper results than current software on the market. Called RAISR, the system uses machine learning for intelligent upscaling.
Well, you can add "captioning photos" to the list of jobs robots will soon be able to do just as well as humans. After some training, the latest version of Google's "Show and Tell" algorithm can describe the contents of a photo with staggering 94% accuracy.