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Almalence at Embedded Vision Alliance Summit on May 12, 2015
Meet us and see the demo of our newest technology at Embedded Vision Alliance Summit on May 12, 2015, in Santa Clara, CA
Contact us to get a discount on admission tickets.
Meet us at Photokina 2014
- Live demo of Super Resolution on a handset camera
- Renewed A Better Camera for Android bringing drastically improved user experience due to utilization of Android L camera API
- Other cutting edge computational photography and mobile imaging technologies
We will also be giving an introduction to usage of Open Camera, an open source camera app framework, as a part of “I want to be a photo app developer” workshop.
See you at our stand B-16 in Hall 9.1
We’re hiring
Wanted: Highly experienced Qt/C++ Developer for further development of our flagship application PhotoAcute: http://almalence.com/jobs/#lead-qt-developer
Wanted: Freelance/part-time Field Application Engineer in Japan: http://almalence.com/jobs/#fae-part-time-japan
Super Resolution with Nokia Lumia 1520. How pure can a Pureview be?
As Nokia made RAW format available in Lumia 1520, we took a chance to test Almalence Super Resolution technology with it.
As Lumia 1520 always outputs 5 Megapixel image, the comparison has been made between:
- Standard image at maximal zoom (pixel-to-pixel crop from the sensor with no resampling) bicubically upsized 2x, and
- 5 Megapixel crop from 19 Megapixel RAW, zoomed 4x with Almalence Super Resolution Zoom
Results in brief
- Noticeable increase of effective resolution
- Simultaneous noise reduction
- Processing time for 5Mpix output at 4x on MSM8974 at 2.3GHz (Lumia 1520 chip set): 0.38 sec
Examples
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Left: standard image taken with Nokia Lumia 1520; Right: Super Resolution image.
Fine details became visible.
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Conclusion
Nokia’s approach to improving the quality of zoomed images is using higher-resolution sensors. The results of Super Resolution testing clearly show that Almalence’s Super Resolution Zoom is not just an alternative, but a great addition to that approach, providing not only higher resolution and allowing higher zoom levels, but also drastically reducing the noise.