You must have heard a million times about resolution of smartphones or photos. Every time a new smart phone is released, camera setup and resolution are always one of the highlights. On Sept. 24, China’s smartphone company Xiaomi unveiled a concept phone MIX Alpha, boasting an unprecedented 108MP ultra-clear camera, able to shoot 12032 x…
Kinect is a line of motion sensors first released by Microsoft in June 2010, initially developed as an add-on for Xbox 360 gaming console and Windows PC. It enabled users to control and interact with their console/computer using gestures and spoken commands. In Nov. 2014, the second-generation Kinect was released to replace the old Kinect…
It is reported that India will build one of the largest face recognition systems in the world to strengthen its public security network. Indian Prime Minister Modi says the government will invite tenders in October to build a system that will focus on face data captured by surveillance cameras in India. The system will be…
9 days after Apple released the iPhone 11 series, Huawei followed to unveil its latest flagship phones Mate30 and Mate30 Pro in Munich on Sept. 19. Huawei Mate30 is powered by the company’s Kirin 990 5G chipset, and a 16-core supersized GPU. The phone features notch design and thin bezels, and has a 6.62-inch full…
3D camera is a kind of camera that can capture objects or scenes in three dimensions. Different from images recorded by traditional cameras, the images captured by 3D cameras contain depth information of the scene, to maximally reconstruct a real-world three-dimensional viewing experience. Depth perception enables the 3D camera’s application in a wide variety of…
Every day we see the world in three dimensions, our brains can identify people, animals and objects and figure out how big and far away they are. But the image captured by regular cameras are 2-dimensional, with geometric information lost, such as size, volume and distance, because the cameras can’t function like human eyes. How…
Chinese gaming company Netease can use AI to turn your selfie or a sketch into a video game character, revealed in Face-to-Parameter Translation for Game Character Auto-Creation, a paper it published on arXiv. According to Netease, the technology has been used for more than 1 million times by Chinese gamers. It streamlines the time-consuming character…
It is reported that Apple will upgrade its iPad products next year. ToF 3D sensor rear camera will be applied. The new iPad Pro to be launched in March, 2020, may adopt ToF technology to its camera. ToF is a technology that measures the traveling time between the emission of a pulsed light and its…
On August 31st, an app called ZAO unexpectedly rocketed to the top of the download chart of China’s iOS app store. Last weekend, on WeChat, China’s most popular social network, people were amazed to see their friend’s faces in movies, TV shows, and memes and couldn’t help having a try themselves. ZAO is a face-swapping…
