Google Camera’s Portrait Mode technology from the Pixel 2 is now open source...

Google Camera's Portrait Mode technology from the Pixel 2 is now open source... xda-developers Mar 15, 2018 1:23 AM • by Joe Fedewa Google Camera's Portrait Mode technology from the Pixel 2 is now open source Most people agree the Pixel 2 family has the best cameras on any smartphone right now. The camera hardware itself is great, but most of the magic is happening on the software side. For example, the HDR+ feature makes almost any camera better when it's ported to other phones. A new software feature on the Pixel 2 is "Portrait Mode." It identifies you and blurs the background to create a cool effect. The camera is using semantic image segmentation to achieve this. Basically, it categorizes every pixel with a label such as "person" or "sky." This helps the camera to differentiate between a person in the foreground and the sky in the background. Google has released this technology as open source, which means developers can use the same tech in their own apps. Portrait Mode is just one example of how this technology can be used. Developers can do even more cool stuff. This release includes DeepLab-v3+ models built on top of a powerful convolutional neural network (CNN) backbone architecture [2, 3] for the most accurate results, intended for server-side deployment. As part of this release, we are additionally sharing our Tensorflow model training and evaluation code, as well as models already pre-trained on the Pascal VOC 2012 and Cityscapes benchmark semantic segmentation tasks. Source: Google Research Android Advices Mar 13, 2018 4:48 PM • by Pavan Kumar B.C Asus ZenFone 4 Pro start receiving Android Oreo update Asus started rolling out the Android Oreo update to its ZenFone 4 Pro. The new update to this devices comes with a version V15.0410.1802.34 and along with Oreo the update also brings many bug fixes along with improvements in the power consumption, long screenshot, substitution of Cast function for the PlayTo function and few changes to the UI to make it more user-friendly. Apart from these, we can also see changes in various segments. The background activity will be minimized with android Oreo, Autofill, Smart text selection, Android Instant apps and many other features. The update has started to roll out to the supported devices and if you can't wait for the update to hit your device via OTA, you can always do it manually by heading to the settings of the handset, then click on about section and select system update. If the update is available it has to be downloaded and installed. Make sure the battery on the device is more than 60 percent before installing the update. Coming to the smartphone, it sports a 5.5-inch 1080p display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top. Under the hood, there is an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor coupled with 6GB of RAM and Adreno 540 GPU. It comes in 64GB as well as 128GB storage options that can be further extended via microSD card slot. There is a secondary hybrid SIM slot which can be used for second SIM or for a MicroSD card. There is a primary 12MP rear camera accompanied by 16MP secondary and has an 8MP selfie camera with autofocus. There is a front mounted fingerprint sensor to enhance the security levels and has a 3600 mAh battery to power the handset. Do you own Zenfone 4 Pro smartphone? Did you receive the Oreo update? Do let us know by commenting in the section below and stay tuned to Android Advices for more news and updates. Source This email has been sent by Froze ONE (isnanmm0@gmail.com). It is the potion result of 'Tech: Topic watch' from the dashboard 'Personal Dashboard', tab 'Tech > Android'. Unsubscribe © Netvibes 2005-2018 | Terms of service | Privacy Policy Find Netvibes also on: Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr

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