Adobe's new skills, fog and haze

At the Adobe MAX 2014 conference last week, the black tech software company Adobe unveiled several software features that are in the process of research and development, once again showing advanced imagination and strong research and development capabilities. This includes "Time Machine" features that simulate the lighting effects of photo scenes at different times, as well as photo mist removal techniques. Although they are still product prototypes, it is believed that they can be applied to new versions of Photoshop in the near future.

For a career photographer, the prime time of a scene may be just a few minutes, and the main purpose of the technology is to help the photographer retrieve the short "prime time" that was accidentally missed. Even reproduce the photo scene at different times the lighting effect, but also any day, any hour.

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Adobe has collected more than 400 sets of video photography from all over the world to analyze the practical capabilities of the image algorithm. As you can see from the sample proofs, a photo taken in the evening can completely simulate the lighting effects of the afternoon to late night.

Time Machine Effect Chart

Natural Mist Removal Technology

Although there are already many image processing software to provide the fog, but the actual effect is not ideal, that is, after processing color is not natural. Adobe's new technology can achieve a very natural fog and mist removal effect. Of course it also applies to haze. In addition to reducing the hazy feeling, this technique can also add mist.

Previously, researchers from Brown University have developed an interesting image-processing program that, in short, allows you to adjust the weather of a photograph, as in the following image, to turn the ordinary green landscape into autumn harvest, snow, rain and even night. Now, perhaps through the complex PS program, everyone can reverse the weather in the picture, but this program may develop into a PS action or even the phone's weather filter.

In principle, the researchers collected more than 8000 images and obtained some 40 "temporary scene attributes" (Transient scene attributes), including snow, Autumn, mist, sunrise and sunset changes, and on this basis, to obtain an advanced image editing program, To change the properties of the image so that it becomes different weather.