Here are two new experimental photo apps for iOS. After getting inspired by the success of Motion Stills, Google, the giant is releasing more photography apps. These new apps have been built on experimental technology.
Yesterday, Google has launched two new “appsperimentals” for iOS that take advantage of the recent phone & computer vision advancements.
These Photography appsperiments are usable and useful mobile photography experiences that are built on experimental technology.
Motion Stills, launched first on iOS, did create cinemagraphs from short video using experimental stabilization & rendering technologies.
Both of these new apps use technologies such as object recognition, person segmentation, stylization algorithms, & efficient image encoding and decoding.
Google is now researching this technology given the rise of the next-generation phone cameras that could blend hardware and computer vision algorithms.
Google, specifically, is exploring “radically new creative mobile photo & video apps as soon the cameras will be able to understand the semantic content of a photo.
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Selfissimo:
Selfissimo (iOS, Android) is an automated selfie photographer. It snaps a stylish black and white photo every time you pose. Just tap the screen to start a photo shoot. The application encourages you to pose, and captures a photo whenever you quit moving. What you have to do is to tap the screen to end the session then review the resulting contact sheet, saving individual images or saving the entire shoot.
Scrubbies:
“Scrubbies” (iOS) enables you to easily manipulate the speed and direction of video playback to get produced delightful video loops that could highlight actions, capture funny faces, and replay the moments. You can shoot a video in the app and then it could be remixed by scratching it like a DJ. Scrubbing with 1 finger plays the video. Scrubbing with 2 fingers would capture the playback so you can save or share the content.
A 3rd app called Storyboard is just available for Android. This app lets users turn videos only into a single-page comic layout. The app processed completely on-device, automatically selects interesting video frames, and lays them out, as well as applies one of six visual styles.
The company has noted that these apps are using the technologies that are under active research, with performance likely to be varying as a result. The company hopes that public feedback “will help guide some of the technology we develop next.”
