Adobe Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Selfies

Adobe is developing new artificial intelligence-powered tools that may be able to turn your crappy selfies into flattering shots.

The software giant's research team posted a video on YouTube Thursday showing "what the future may hold for selfie photography." The tools aim to help you transform whatsoever ordinary selfie into a headshot-worthy portrait that looks like it was captured and edited by a professional.

Powered by Adobe'southward Sensei bogus intelligence technology, the new tools will let you adjust a selfie to make it announced every bit if it was taken from a different bending and distance. Yous can also apply "automatic portrait masking" to give your prototype a depth-of-field affect, blurring the background while keeping your mug precipitous in the foreground (similar to Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus).

Another absurd feature: Adobe'southward technology will aid you replicate the manner of another portrait photo. If you run across another portrait you lot similar — perhaps a black-and-white shot, or i with moody coloring — you'll be able to apply those attributes to your ain photo.

Today, "groovy portrait photography requires the right perspective, equipment, and editing expertise," Adobe wrote in the video'due south description. In the futurity, thanks to Adobe's artificial intelligence and deep learning engineering, you may be able to create a professional-looking portrait right from your smartphone.

Adobe didn't reveal any other details nearly the tools or say when they might exist integrated into its smartphone apps.

In the meantime, Microsoft is using computer vision technology to produce more than pleasing selfies. The Microsoft Selfie app for iOS and Android "intelligently considers age, gender, peel tone, lighting and many other variables" to aid y'all "transform average photos into enhanced, ideal portraits in seconds," co-ordinate to the app's description.

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