Google is using its machine learning and image processing smarts to mimic the portrait mode on the iPhone 8 Plus with pretty stellar results, and the Pixel Core
Visual image processor that will soon be powering the Pixel 2 will ensure that it actually improves over time.
Not exact matches
In addition to
visual performance and
image clarity, this model comes with a 1 GHz
processor and incorporates powerful Sony technologies such as Reality Display with BRAVIA ® Mobile engine and 8.1 MP camera with Exmor R ™ sensor for mobile phones.
For the Pixel 2, Google has built its own
image signal
processor called Pixel
Visual Core that helps with performance and efficiency.
Google has revealed in a blog post that a hidden hardware
image processor called Pixel
Visual Core wasn't even turned on in our review units.
Since Qualcomm doesn't allow manufacturers to integrate custom
processors into the Snapdragon chip design, Pixel
Visual Core is a standalone, eight - core
image processing unit with its own brain and dedicated RAM.
With the Pixel
Visual Core finally enabled, Google's HDR + routines will be processed using this IPU, and it runs fives times faster while using less than one - tenth of the energy than it would if it ran through the standard
image processor in the Snapdragon 835.
Google has revealed that its Pixel 2's HDR + camera is getting a performance lift from its first ever custom - designed
processor for a consumer product called the Pixel
Visual Core, which is dedicated to processing
images.
The Pixel
Visual Core
processor has been designed for heavy duty «
image processing while using less power» to preserve battery.
Using the Pixel
Visual Core, Google said the phone's camera hardware will process HDR
images five times faster and use less than a 10th of power than doing so on its main applications
processor.
It has a Google - built
image processor called the Pixel
Visual Core, which already applies tons of AI tricks to the smartphone's camera.
And that goes without mentioning the incredible low - light performance and HDR effects provided by the camera, both of which are made possible by using the Pixel's
Visual Core — a custom, purpose - built
image processor that exclusively handles the load of making sure
images are pristine.
It should also be noted that Pixel
Visual Core, the dedicated Google - made
image signal
processor in Pixel 2 devices, is now enabled on the software side for developers of third - party apps.
More than that, it also provides a closer look at the phone's hidden
image processor called the Pixel
Visual Core.
Google has announced that it has activated the hidden Pixel
Visual Core
image processor in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.
Of course, that's the whole point of taking apart devices like this, but the new Google flagship, arguably the most interesting stuff to see are the Active Edge technology and the secret
image processor called the Pixel
Visual Core.
Google has just revealed that the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL has Pixel
Visual Core under the hood, which is a stand - alone
image processor that can take the phones» smartphone photography game to new heights.
It's also set to enable the use of the Pixel
Visual Core on the new Pixel 2 and 2 XL, which is a dedicated multi-core
processor just for
image processing — we'll see how that plays out once we get the software loaded up.
Likely just the start of what we're going to see from Google, Pixel
Visual Core is an 8 - core
Image Processing Unit (IPU); a fully programmable
processor, each IPU featuring 512 arithmetic logic units (ALUs).
The update also activates the Pixel
Visual Core system - on - a-chip (SoC), which is the
image processor built into the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL specifically for processing photos.
Or, more specifically, it will activate a currently dormant
image processor chip called the Pixel
Visual Core, at least for developers.
In the case of HDR +, the company's own HDR implementation, Google says the Pixel
Visual Core can bracket and merge multiple
images five times faster and using one - tenth of power required by a non-specialized
processor that completes the operation using an application process.
«The centerpiece of Pixel
Visual Core is the Google - designed
Image Processing Unit (IPU)-- a fully programmable, domain - specific
processor designed from scratch to deliver maximum performance at low power,» said Google's Ofer Shacham, Senior Staff Engineer and Masumi Reynders, Director of Product Management.