{"id":24512,"date":"2019-04-01T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24512"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:24:02","slug":"but-thats-computational-photography-your-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/04\/01\/but-thats-computational-photography-your-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"But That’s Computational Photography, Your Honor!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (16 March 2019, paywall), Donna Lu notes<\/a> that our smartphone cameras have been enhanced so much that, well, they no longer record reality any longer, but replace it<\/em>:<\/p>\n

THE phrase \u201cthe camera never lies\u201d has never been so wrong. Artificially intelligent smartphones are now editing pictures in real time to create images that can\u2019t be produced by conventional cameras. These enhancements, known as computational photography, are changing the way we view the world.<\/p>\n

The goal of\u00a0digital photography<\/a>\u00a0was once to approximate what our eyes see. \u201cAll digital cameras, including ones on smartphones, have always had some sort of processing to modify contrast and colour balance,\u201d says Neel Joshi, who works on computer vision at Microsoft Research.<\/p>\n

Computational photography goes beyond this, automatically making skin smoother, colours richer and pictures less grainy. It can even turn night into day.<\/p>\n

These photos may look better, but they raise concerns about authenticity and trust in an era of fakeable information. \u201cThe photos of the future will not be recorded, they\u2019ll be computed,\u201d says Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The endangered activity that is not mentioned, I noticed, was citizen proctoring of police activities. After all, smartphones are the primary device for recording police misconduct by citizens. Is there anything to stop a policeman from arguing that the photography of his conduct cannot be introduced as evidence because it’s so easily modified?<\/p>\n

Of course, this defense is less likely to work if there are more than one recording device employed, but it’s not hard to argue in this Age of the Network that the devices merely coordinated their modifications.<\/p>\n

This will not be far in the future, I predict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In NewScientist (16 March 2019, paywall), Donna Lu notes that our smartphone cameras have been enhanced so much that, well, they no longer record reality any longer, but replace it: THE phrase \u201cthe camera never lies\u201d has never been so wrong. Artificially intelligent smartphones are now editing pictures in real \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24514,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512\/revisions\/24514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}