Hello,
After the first implementation of an AI tool in DPL with DeepPrime, here is the summary of our AI wishlist:
#1. AI mask
Select quick masks of parts of the image, assisted by AI. For example: sharpness mask (automatic detection of areas of maximum sharpness with an opacity gradient depending on the transition between sharpness and blur); sky; faces and skin; vegetation, etc.
#2. AI highlight recovery
An AI tool for recovering/simulating “lost information” in overexposed areas in a realistic way. It will be very useful for cloudy or white skies in landscape pictures, or colored spotlights that appear white because they are overexposed. Maybe an AI algorithm could restore their natural color, despite their overexposure.
In short, a way to improve the current performance of DPL in the recovery of highlights (a weakness for the moment, in my opinion) and I hope, to overtake the competitors.
#3. AI restoration after perspective transformation
It would be very useful to widen the crop after ViewPoint transformations. By recreating “out of original picture” areas with AI algorithms, it would be possible to complete the empty parts of the frame by a “realistic” pattern, copied from closest areas of the picture (sky, vegetation, grass, rocks or concrete ground, etc.).
#4. Noise removing improvement
Done: it is deepPrime!
#5. AI-assisted DAM
It would be very useful for those who use a DAM.
#6 AI sensor’s dust removal
I would like the AI to successfully perform this step without any manual intervention.
#7. AI help to select to best picture of a series (new)
AI could assign a score to each picture to help choose the best one among a series of similar pictures. Examples of criteria: sharpness score (the best sharpness), portrait score (those where the eyes are not closed, orientation of the gaze, smile, etc.), bokeh score (where the background is clean); strength of the composition (rule of thirds, symmetry, etc.). A help to eliminate quicky the pictures that will not never be good, to avoid demosaicing them just to find out they do not worth it.
#8. AI Object detection and replacement (new)
You select very roughly an area of the image, AI precisely selects its boundaries and replaces it with the background. Magic!
Please don’t hesitate to come up with new ideas: a new DPL is coming!
Regards,