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Jan 28Tue
  1. Google Blog · XR/AROptics and AI40

    Google Describes Development of the Pixel Camera's Add Me Group Photo Feature

    Google has outlined the development of the Pixel camera's Add Me feature, which combines two photos taken sequentially of the same scene so that the photographer can also appear in the group shot. The second photographer sees an augmented reality overlay of the first photo to align the composition. The feature relies on multiple machine learning models running locally on the TPU of the Tensor G4 chip. Add Me launched with the Pixel 9 series.

Oct 15Sat
  1. Google Blog · XR/AROptics and AI38

    Google Engineers Explain How Lens Turns Camera Images into Text

    Google Lens engineer Ana Manasovska explains how Lens recognizes text in camera views: the team uses trained machine learning models to identify characters and determine structures such as sentences, paragraphs, text blocks and columns. Recognized text can be copied, searched or translated, and can also be read aloud for blind or low-vision users.