SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS NIGHTOGRAPHY DELIVERS ‘EPIC NIGHT SHOTS’ By Wanjiku Thuku
In the last decade, smartphone photography has significantly progressed thanks to innovations in camera hardware, computational imaging, and AI. However, capturing photos in low light has always remained challenging, until Samsung Electronics debuted its revolutionary Nightography feature. First introduced in the Galaxy S22 series, Galaxy users can now enjoy even more vivid, highly optimized photos, even in the dark, with enhanced Nightogaphy for the Galaxy S23 series. Helping users say goodnight to washed-out, blurry night images was a group effort driven by Samsung’s experts. Mr. John Seok-Jun Lee, Head of Computational Camera Part at Samsung Research America (SRA), and Narasimha Gopalakrishna Pai, Head of AI Computational Imaging Part at Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore (SRI-B), had to say about their joint development of Nightography, the best way to take crisp photos and videos from dusk until dawn. Nightography helps users to take vivid photos in low-light environments. The S23 camera captures a series of images with different brightness levels, then applies multiframe processing (MFP) technology. This technology analyzes the images, removes the frames with noise or blur, and then merges the remaining frames into a single clear shot with HDR. Then an AI-powered ISP algorithm on NPU enhances the photos’ color, tone, and details.Nightography image quality on the Galaxy S23 has improved tremendously with enhanced brightness while still controlling the noise, clarity, and saturation around light sources, like neon signboards. By using the exclusive snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for the Galaxy S23 series.
The R&D Revolution: Nightography?
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