Adobe's Research Team Demos Tech That Could Transform Selfie Photography

[MacRumors]

Adobe today shared a video from its Adobe Research team, demonstrating what future selfies could look like using artificial intelligence and deep learning technology.

Using its Adobe Sensei technology, Adobe demonstrates tweaking a selfie photo with perspective effect editing, automatic masking, and photo style transfer technology.

The end result is a standard selfie that's been edited to look like it was taken at a longer focal length, with a depth of field effect added for a much more flattering image. It also demonstrates the quick copy and paste of image styles from one photo to another.

The Adobe Research team has been exploring what the future may hold for selfie photography powered by Adobe Sensei. Great portrait photography requires the right perspective, equipment, and editing expertise.

But what happens when we tap into the power of artificial intelligence and deep learning to transform bad portrait shots into good ones - all on a smartphone? By combining perspective effect editing, automatic, software-only photo masking, and photo style transfer technology, we're able to transform a typical selfie into a flattering portrait with a pleasing depth-of-field effect that can also replicate the style of another portrait photo.

The technology shown off in the video isn't available to consumers as of yet, but Adobe says it's a "peek into the future potential of mobile portrait photography."

Adobe's Research Team has shown off additional up-and-coming technologies in the past, giving us a behind the scenes look at some of the things Adobe's working on. Past videos have showcased a voice-based AI for image editing, digital face painting, and an interactive sculpting tool for Photoshop.

Article Link: Adobe's Research Team Demos Tech That Could Transform Selfie Photography

 

[atomic.flip]

Impressive...

 

[DogHouseDub]

How about an app that makes people stop thinking about themselves all the time?

 

[djbuddha]

Between this and the tech Adobe showed off with audio to do text to speech with anybody's voice (as long as you have around 20 minutes of speech from the voice you want being the current technical limitation), Adobe is well on their way to making the whole "dead people" hologram concert thing way more accessible LOL .. Watching them over the next 5 years is going to be interesting.

 

[riverfreak]

The world is so desperately in need of enhanced selfie technology. Making the world a better place. Thank you Adobe.

 

[SBlue1]

What about making the iPhone block any attempt to shoot videos in portrait mode?

 

[robbyx]

This just makes me sad. Perfecting selfie technology, now that's something to be proud of!

 

[gsmornot]

Snapped added a similar feature recently. Not all of this but you can change the perspective on a portrait. They call it Pose.

 

[campyguy]

I'm still waiting for an app that will make me look like George Clooney (and also enhance my bank account like his…).

 

[78Bandit]

The only thing I want is an app that says "It looks like you're taking a selfie. Please don't."

The only thing worse than seflies are selfies taken in a mirror where the person is looking down at their own phone, usually by a girl trying to show what a rockin' bod she has.

 

[SoulCloud]

An example of why subscriptionship model is an utter rubbish for customers. Mr. Adobe charges a fortune for 2014 spec softwares with some bits and bobs added to them and their teenage engineers have unlimited amount of allowance to fiddle around with this kind of stuff. I'd say if they were selling their applications the way a hardcore capitalist company does, instead of collecting rent like a bunch of parasitic clerks, they wouldn't dare to play in Snapchat's decaying sandpit and be more serious with their core products. Well, no luck here. Or maybe it's just me. Or maybe just that guy who wants to look like George Clooney.

 

[soanis]

How about an app that makes people stop thinking about themselves all the time?

forget it...we are well within the era of the glorification of the (digital) self and we aren't moving to anywhere else any time soon.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Is that Noah in the ad?

 

[ZZ9pluralZalpha]

I probably count as an Old now, but I thought the whole reason (excuse) for selfies being a thing was "here's a picture of me with someone/at somewhere/in front of something interesting!" Isn't blurring out the background tantamount to admitting that selfies are just pure narcissism?

 

[WarHeadz]

I probably count as an Old now, but I thought the whole reason (excuse) for selfies being a thing was "here's a picture of me with someone/at somewhere/in front of something interesting!" Isn't blurring out the background tantamount to admitting that selfies are just pure narcissism?

I don't think anyone ever denied that. Selfies were never about the things in the background.

 

[M.PaulCezanne]

Zuckerberg made 4 thousand million dollars from a simple shaming site because of the number of ad impressions it could potentially deliver. Any tech that drives social media is going to get developer attention, regardless of its true utility.

 

[DoctorDoctor]

The world is so desperately in need of enhanced selfie technology. Making the world a better place. Thank you Adobe.

Why not ? I mean this is what Adobe does. This is their business. Good grief.