Adobe is working on a camera app designed to take your smartphone photography to the next level.
“What I did at Google was to democratize good photography,” Levoy said in an exclusive interview.
Computational photography has worked wonders in improving the image quality of small, physically limited smartphone cameras.
Adobe itself has some of those in its own camera app, built into its Lightroom mobile app.
“That just opens up a lot of possibilities.
That’s something I’ve always wanted to do and something that I can do at Adobe.”
In contrast, Google and its smartphone competitors don’t want to confuse their more mainstream audience.
Adobe’s approach adds new artificial intelligence methods to the challenge, he said.
“I would love to be able to remove window reflections,” Levoy said.
“I would like to ship that, because it ruins a lot of my photographs.”
Another concern: Smartphone cameras and processing capabilities vary widely.
But Levoy, who’s seen what computational photography already has delivered despite those challenges, clearly is enthralled.
“It’s just getting exciting,” Levoy said.
“We haven’t come anywhere near the end of this road.”
