We have a much more in -
depth camera face - off for you to check out, but based on our comparisons it looks like the iPhone 8's dual cameras outperform the Note 8's.
After performing an in -
depth camera face - off, we've come to the conclusion that the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have the edge when it comes to sheer photo quality.
Not exact matches
It uses a unique
camera system to map a user's
face on the fly, and
depth - sensing technology allows you to unlock your device, use Apple Pay, and gain access to secure apps.
He also wrote that one of the main production bottlenecks, the delicate and complicate front -
facing facial recognition
camera called True
Depth, had been mostly solved, and increased his previous fourth quarter iPhone X shipments estimate 10 % -20 % higher.
The company says FaceID creates a «precise
depth map» of one's visage by projecting more than 30,000 infrared dots against a person's
face, then using the phone's infrared TrueDepth
camera and high - power microchip to collect and analyze the results.
Platform: Android Jelly Bean OS Display: 5 - inch HD IPS screen with a color
depth of 16.7 million Screen resolution: 1280 x 720 pixels Main
camera: 8MP with LED flash, rear -
facing RAM: NA Internal memory: NA, expandable up to 32 GB Processor: 1.2 GHz quad core MediaTek MT6589 Cortex - A7 CPU Connectivity: 3G capable Battery capacity: 2100mAh
The smartphone boasts of an 8 - megapixel front -
facing camera along with the secondary 2 - megapixel
depth - sensing
camera, which according to company will be able to deliver crisp images and advanced
depth of field including background blur, background swap and improved low - light results.
With AR and VR as one of the key highlights, the phablet features an 8 - megpaixel front
facing camera, a 16 - megpaixel RGB
camera, a motion
camera and a
depth sensing
camera.
It has a 12 - megapixel rear
camera with OIS along with a 20 - megapixel secondary
camera to capture
depth information for portrait shots, both with Sony sensors and a 24 - megapixel front
camera with
face unlock that can detect 1024 facial points.
Other features of the
camera include
face detection capability, geo - tagging, and built - in effects such as
depth of field.
It's still a 7 - megapixel sensor, but the technology around it has been upgraded allowing you to take Portrait selfies using the same AI
depth effect techniques used on the rear
facing cameras.
In addition to the main front -
facing camera, four more
depth - sensing
cameras ended up on the front corners of the phone.
Photo mode really is a great feature; allowing the
camera to be positioned with freedom within the vicinity of Rad and Dusty whilst on their platforming action adventure including extensive customisation of images such as panning,
camera height, zooming in or out, anywhere from a minor tilt to a full sideways, upward or downward
facing tilt, field of view within the range of 50 to 120,
depth of field focal region, focal bokeh size and focal distance, saturation, gamma, gain and contrast, alongside 9 variations of colour grading intensity including cross process, portaesque, proviaesque, velviaesque, fire, blue ravine, empty, snowy and rainy.
Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned
depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple
camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog
face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning
The DSiWare title uses the
camera for
face tracking, which gives the illusion of
depth.
Finally, Unity4.3 for PlayStation ® 4 supports
camera features such as
depth detection, hand and
face positioning and PS Move detection.
Game Controls • Touch screen, embedded microphone, A / B / X / Y
face buttons, + Control Pad, L / R buttons, Start and Select buttons, «Slide Pad» that allows 360 - degree analog input, one inner
camera, two outer
cameras, motion sensor and a gyro sensor Other Input Controls • 3D
Depth Slider to adjust level of 3D effect (can be scaled back or turned off completely depending on the preference of the user), Home button to call system function, Wireless switch to turn off wireless communications (even during game play), Power button.
HoloLens uses many of the Kinect technologies for
depth - sensing, and many laptops now ship with Windows Hello
cameras that use the learnings of Kinect to recognize people's
faces.
Here's how Apple VP Phil Schiller describes it: «You compose a photo, the dual
cameras and the ISP sense the scene, they create a
depth map, and they actually change the lighting contours over the
face.»
Its list of specifications includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 system - on - chip, 4GB / 6 GB of RAM paired with 64 GB of storage, 6 - inch Full HD + (2160 × 1080) IPS display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, dual 12MP primary + 5MP secondary (
depth sensing)
cameras, 20MP front -
facing camera, and a 4000mAh battery.
The
camera uses machine learning in order to create a
depth mask of people's
faces.
The True
Depth camera system is aided by the proximity and ambient light sensor in identifying the light required for the
face recognition to work before the Infrared light is used to improve the illumination further (this light is invisible to the naked eye).
CMOS (complementary metal - oxide semiconductor), Autofocus, Continuous shooting, Digital zoom, Optical image stabilization, Geotagging, Panorama, HDR, Touch focus,
Face detection, White balance settings, ISO settings, Exposure compensation, Self - timer, Scene mode, Phase detection, Laser autofocus, Contrast autofocus,
Depth autofocus, Secondary rear
camera - 12 MP, Aperture size - f / 2.2 (# 2)
Apple's Animoji, which tap the iPhone X's
depth - sensing
Face ID
camera for goofy animated iMessages, have achieved something of a cult following.
That way the
camera system can capture you from a variety of angles and create a
depth map of your
face.
And it's also true that it's less secure than other authentication methods, like Apple's FaceID, which OnePlus doesn't deny — its facial mapping solution, which uses the OnePlus 5T's front -
facing RGB
camera, consists of a hundred
depth data points compared to the thousands captured by dedicated hardware.
It features an all - screen design, an 5.8 - inch OLED display, wireless charging, dual - lens
cameras with improved
depth sensing, and a facial recognition system called
Face ID, and lacks the iconic Home button.
Xiaomi's Mi 7 will boast a front -
facing 3D
camera setup aking to Apple's iPhone X which will be capable of leveraging a structured light - based technique in order to create
depth maps of images, according to a new rumor out of China.
To enable Portrait Lighting, the two
cameras create a
depth map of an image, using machine learning techniques to mark the presence of a
face and how the light in a scene interacts with the
face.
As with the iPhone 7 line, the bigger model leverages the two rear -
facing cameras to add
depth to photos without the need for expensive hardware and large lenses required by dedicated
cameras.
The front -
facing camera on the iPhone X is a 7MP unit with f / 2.2 aperture and thanks to the additional array which captures
depth information, you're able to take portrait mode selfies.
The front -
facing camera is powered by that True
Depth camera system that supports FaceID.
All these technological advancements is what makes these features work without hiccups — the
Face ID facial recognition system, the
depth - sensing
camera systems, or the intense augmented reality apps, and more.
Given that the home button has historically been central to the iPhone's security, the replacement comes in the form of a
depth - sensing front
camera that will unlock the phone by detecting the user's
face.
That makes it exceptionally good at protecting against falls, bumps, and scratches, and at resisting fingerprints (thanks to an oleophobic coating), and careful cutouts around the front -
facing cameras and
depth sensors let the iPhone X's
Face ID facial recognition see you bright as day.
The vertically aligned dual rear -
facing camera setup combines a 16MP lens with f / 2.0 aperture and secondary 5MP sensor for capturing advanced
depth information, while the single front shooter might actually be the mid-range 6.3 - incher's main selling point, producing super-high-res 24MP selfies enhanced by a number of AI techniques.
The new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus stand in the shadow of the upcoming iPhone X, which sports a futuristic edge - to - edge screen and a new
depth - sensing front
camera that lets you unlock the handset with your
face.
I know there are serious thickness and
depth considerations when putting a front -
facing camera in a tablet, but I'd much rather have opted for having no rear
camera at all on the Tab S2 8.0 to simply get a better shooter on the front for video calls.
CMOS (complementary metal - oxide semiconductor), Autofocus, Continuous shooting, Digital zoom, Optical image stabilization, Geotagging, Panorama, HDR, Touch focus,
Face detection, White balance settings, ISO settings, Exposure compensation, Self - timer, Scene mode, Leica
camera, Phase detection, Laser autofocus, Contrast autofocus,
Depth autofocus, Secondary rear
camera - 20 MP (monochrome), Aperture size - f / 2.2 (# 2), Digital image stabilization (# 2), Autofocus
On the rear -
facing camera, it's actually called
depth effect, but it is basically a macro or portrait mode feature.
With the tech used in the rear
camera sensor, it can actually create a
depth map but the front -
facing camera doesn't have this ability, so this is where the machine learning technology comes into play.
Word on the street is that one of the premium P - series models will feature a new 3D
camera dubbed the «Point Cloud Depth Camera» that should be seen as a rival to Apple's Fa
camera dubbed the «Point Cloud
Depth Camera» that should be seen as a rival to Apple's Fa
Camera» that should be seen as a rival to Apple's
Face ID.
Unlike
Face ID on the iPhone X, the 5T's
Face Unlock only uses a regular selfie
camera, instead of a fancy infrared
depth - mapping
camera.
Snapdragon 845's
camera features will include Ultra HD Premium Video Capture, deep portrait, multi-frame noise reduction, 30 percent power reduction for video,
depth based
face recognition, accelerated image stabilization, selective motion capture, and more.
The new components will allow combining
depth information with 2D images from the front
camera for applications such as
face and iris recognition as well as 3D selfies, according to a note from KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo obtained by 9to5Mac.
While it remains unclear precisely how Apple might integrate the technology with its upcoming iPhone, the patent notes that the facial recognition apparatus will rely on a combination of
camera modules,
depth sensors and computer imaging techniques to generate
depth maps and accurately identify
faces in images.
The notch also provides space for a pair of front
facing cameras, which, if they function the same way Motorola's dual rear
cameras have, should allow for shallow
depth - of - field Portrait - style selfies.
CMOS BSI (backside illumination), Autofocus, Continuous shooting, Digital zoom, Optical image stabilization, Geotagging, Panorama, HDR, Touch focus,
Face detection, White balance settings, ISO settings, Exposure compensation, Self - timer, Scene mode, RAW, Leica Dual -
camera 2.0, Phase detection, Laser autofocus, Contrast autofocus,
Depth autofocus, Summilux - H lens, 6 - element lens, Secondary rear
camera - 20 MP (monochrome),
Face recognition
There are two rear -
facing cameras AKA Duo
camera, to get a more «in -
depth image».
Apple says
Face ID is enabled by the TrueDepth camera and projects and analyzes more than 30,000 invisible dots to create a precise depth map of your f
Face ID is enabled by the TrueDepth
camera and projects and analyzes more than 30,000 invisible dots to create a precise
depth map of your
faceface.