In fact, in the viral photo of a wedding dress, artificial intelligence did something with an iPhone

Tessa Coates She hosts a podcast, is a writer, and is also getting married. She shared part of the preparations on her Instagram page, and as in many cases, the bride’s dress became one of the most talked about topics.

However, for Coates, her dress was not the focus of the discussion; Recently, she shared a photo of herself in her stories, standing in front of two mirrors.

At first glance, nothing happens, but look at it for a few seconds and notice that the image appears to break Matrix Or it’s taken from an episode of Black mirror.

The thing is that the writer poses differently than can be seen in her reflections. To note this “failure Matrix“You have to pay close attention to where your hands are.

After the controversy… Coates He uploaded the photo to his personal page and accompanied it with the following text: “This is a real photo, it has not been edited Photo shopno panoramic, no Vivid image. Please enjoy this matrix/image glitch that had me almost throwing up in the street.

Actually, it’s not an episode of Sci-fi From some series. Everything indicates that it could be due to a failure of the artificial intelligence built into the camera of the cell phone with which the photo was taken.

First of all, it is known that the photo was taken using an iPhone as Coates herself mentioned this Vivid image Which is present in mobile phones Manzana. It is also known that it was not revised either.

Now, we must remember that Apple has been making an application for some time Computational photography Taking pictures on iPhone.

When they launched the iPhone 11, those from Cupertino introduced a technology called Deep fusion, whose goal was not only to improve the quality of images in low-light conditions. They also aimed to capture colors and textures better, and for the end result to be sharper overall.

How did they do it? The camera captured multiple images of the same scene (some before the user even pressed the capture button) with different exposures and parameters applied, to automatically combine them using AI.

In 2022, on the occasion of the launch of the iPhone 14, Apple presented an improved version of this technology called Optical enginewhich worked similarly to Deep fusionsince it also took multiple shots and combined them to provide the best possible result in a single image.

However, Photonic Engine uses uncompressed images, and the process starts early. This is how Apple explained it at launch:

“Optical engine This amazing increase in quality is allowed through the application Deep fusion Early in the photographic process to deliver extraordinary detail, preserve fine textures, provide better colors, and retain more information in the photograph.

Although it is not known which iPhone model the photo of the bride was taken, it can be noted that the failure of the different poses between Coates and his reflections in the mirrors is a confusion between the optical engine or the Deep Fusion function, as she showed. I want to contact her.

In conclusion, the AI ​​and machine learning applied to Apple’s computational photography are still unable to clearly distinguish between mirrored scenes.

Technology absorbed That there were three different people in the picture and not just one person reflected in two mirrors. So, in that storm iPhone The best version of each of the bride’s ‘variants’ was automatically captured before being combined into the photo that went viral.