MIT's 'Picture Perfect' Chip To Help Amateur Photographers Take Amazing Clicks

Taking a perfect snapshot is an art that requires a lot of practice and patience. There are a lot of softwares available that can help you transform an image, but the issue with these softwares is that they are too slow and require a lot of knowledge on the user's part. Researchers at MIT have developed a new chip that can perform multiple operation on an image in a fraction of seconds.
According to Rahul Rithe, the lead researcher, the idea here is to make a chip that consumes less power and give better results. The new chip has the capability of doing multiple tasks, including adjusting color, brightness, removing noise etc. To adjust the brightness the chip automatically takes three images, a normal one, an overexposed one and an underexposed one. Using all these three the chip gives an image with entire range of brightness in the scene. In other tasks, the chip can also help to enhance the lightning of an image taken in dark ambiance. To perform this, the processor takes two images, one with a flash and one without. It then splits both into a base layer. Finally both images are merged, combining the natural ambience from non-flash image with details from the image taken with flash.
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The best part about the chip is that it performs all the task at a blazing speed. While currently available softwares take several seconds to perform these operations, the chip can do this in few hundred milliseconds.  The technology can be used with smartphones, tablets or digital cameras. Zoom into the future!
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