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.

Almalence will be presenting:

• 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

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

Notice the branches of the tree at the right, the bars of the vent in the coach.

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Left: standard shot, right: Super Resolution Zoom.
Text became readable, noise level decreased.

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.