Canon announced the Photo Culling app, the company’s new iOS software that is based on newly announced proprietary artificial intelligence. Canon announces its new application as a “digital photo assistant” to help select your best images based on four main parameters.
Starting with the core of its new application, Canon announced that it has built a Computer Vision Artificial Intelligence Engine called PHIL, which is shortened to “Photography Intelligence Learning”. This is the debut of the company’s AI engine, which it chose to deploy first as the basis for its new selection application.
The application, which analyzes images based on sharpness, noise, emotions and closed eyes using the power of PHIL, was created to solve the perceived problem of many images.
“According to a recent report by Keypoint Intelligence, 1.4 trillion photos were taken worldwide in 2020 and 7.4 trillion images were stored,” writes Canon. “With these surprising numbers, it can be overwhelming for the average consumer to decide which photos are best to keep and store.”
The Photo Culling app has two slaughter options: Whole Culling and Similar Culling.
Whole Culling determines the best photos based on what Canon defines as the “absolute best scores” that AI awards based on the four models mentioned above. If the score exceeds the limit defined by the user, the photo will be considered the best. The remaining images would be suggested as exclusions.
The similar selection determines the best photos based on a score comparison between a group of images. The highest scoring photos within that predetermined group are considered “best” and users can tell the app to select and display the “second best” as well. Mirroring the Whole Culling system, the remaining images would be suggested as exclusions. The application can also find similar photos and group them together.
“For example,” explains Canon. “If a user selects 10 photos of a dog and 10 photos of a sunset, he will divide the photos into two groups and find the best photo for each one; one from the dog and the other from the sunset. “
The app does more than just select and features some other notable features.
First, it can show the number of photos a user has, as well as the amount of phone storage being used and available on the app’s home screen. It can also categorize and place photos in albums, also displayed on the home screen, which are dynamically based on events and dates throughout the year. The app will pull events that have a large number of photos and suggest that users review and delete the less attractive ones to save storage space.
The application will also display the number of photos that helped you choose to delete and also offers the ability to set parameters around how sharpness, noise, emotion and closed yees scores. You can adjust the impact of noise on a photo compared to closed eyes, for example.
The Canon Photo Culling app is available on the iOS app store (no mention of the availability of Google Play has been noted) and is compatible with subscription options: $ 2.99 per month or $ 14.99 per year. You can try the app for free for three days before making any purchase decisions.
(via Canon Watch)