Samsung publishes on blog how ``photo of fake moon drawn by AI'' is taken

Samsung's high-end smartphones are equipped with a 'space zoom' feature that allows you to take zoomed photos up to 100x. Samsung has posted technical details on its English blog about the fact that the photos of the moon taken using this space zoom function were ``mostly drawn by AI processing''.

How Samsung Galaxy Cameras Combine Super Resolution Technologies With AI Technology to Produce High-Quality Images of the Moon – Samsung Mobile Press

https://www.samsungmobilepress.com/feature-stories/how-samsung-galaxy-cameras-combine-super-resolution-technologies-with-ai-technology-to-produce-high-quality-images-of-the- moon/

Samsung responds to fake Moon controversy - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23641069/samsung-fake-moon-controversy-english-language-blog-post

Regarding the suspicion that ``most of the pictures of the moon taken with the space zoom function were drawn with AI,'' a user of the Internet bulletin board Reddit said, ``Take an image of the moon that has been blurred in advance with the space zoom function.'' It was verified by As a result, the image of the moon that should have been originally blurred was taken, but the image of the moon with fine details was taken. Isn't there?'

Pointed out that the picture of the moon taken with Galaxy's camera's 100x zoom function 'Space Zoom' is 'counterfeiting by AI'-GIGAZINE

In response, Samsung posted an English blog post titled 'How Samsung Galaxy Cameras Combine Super Resolution Technologies With AI Technology to Produce High-Quality Images of the Moon'. How to generate an image of the moon)' posted an article.

According to the article, when taking a picture of the moon with the space zoom function, Samsung's smartphone uses super-resolution to synthesize more than 10 images taken with a zoom of 25x or more to remove noise and sharpen the image. Emphasis on In addition, when the scene optimizer is on and the moon is being shot, the moon will be brighter and clearer with the scene optimizer's 'detail enhancement engine'.

The AI used in the space zoom function is a model that has learned about ``the shape and details of various moons from full moons to crescent moons'', and if the moon is visible in the photo, it detects the area occupied by the moon in the photo. That's right.

And Scene Optimizer's Detail Enhancement engine effectively removes residual noise through AI processing to further enhance image detail. According to Samsung's claims, Reddit users verified that turning off the scene optimizer left the moon photos blurry because the scene optimizer function was using AI processing to improve the details.

This article is almost the same as what was posted on the Korean version of the blog in 2022. In other words, Samsung has long clarified that photos of the moon taken with the space zoom function will be detailed with AI processing. However, some users point out that ``if you use this moon's photo for marketing without revealing that it is sharpened by AI, there may be cases where you misunderstand that the optical performance of your smartphone is excellent.'' I have.