Resolution is interesting because video resolution is actually enough for a lot of purposes - sharing to FB or viewing on a retina phone display for ex.
1. You guys should make a Google Glass app. It could be always on and automatically record the salient moments of an event - without me ever taking a picture.
2. You could make an auto-Leibovitz mode that picks each person's best face and merges them into a single photo.
What about doing the opposite — use the still image sensor and rapidly record images + audio to stitch a video together. Curious, as that might sound ridiculous, but I wonder if the iPhone's camera is fast enough, in good light situations, to get reasonable video that would provide far more optimal stills.
Also, are there reasons the app doesn't tap the slo-motion capability of the iPhone 5s (and 5 can do 60fps iirc)? I'd imagine you'd have crisper stills, but you would need to sift through a lot more of them :) and also they might be more grainy.
It may sound weird.. but these kind of tradeoffs work to our advantage. There are fundamental limits to performance, filesize, bandwidth that everyone has to deal with. The fact that it's such a high-dimensional space means we can find a niche and optimize for cases that current cameras are missing.
I see :) Yeah, it sounds like you understand the different kind of approaches that are available here. It's fun to sort of 'misuse' some of these technologies.
Thanks! Try it out and let me know what hit/missed. There are a surprising number of techniques for affecting IQ on iOS, so specific feedback is great.
First thing I would suggest is to work on the onboarding, specially wrt requesting user's device features. 4 straight modal dialogs is a big turnoff, and makes the app feel more nefarious than it probably is.
We talk to people who totally do that. They're the perfect proto-users who get why this is useful.
The Vhoto app just makes that easier, and helps jump to interesting / distinct / clear frames. You can do it entirely by hand by trying to scrub to the right frame, but point of the app (and the computer vision algos behind it) is to make it easy and do most of the work for you.
I have no idea if this app does this (I don't think it does; it seems to just detect motion blurred frames and discard those as good candidates), but you can actually pull a lot more detail/sharpness out using multi-frame super-resolution algorithms over a series of frames (even if there is movement from frame to frame) rather than just pulling the video codec data out for one frame.
Why do I have to sign up? Why is there need for a social network for this app, I just don't get it. It would have worked beautifully just as an isolated app. I actually would love to find great photos in my videos. I was really excited about the idea, but having to sign up and reading your privacy statement about getting all my video data made me delete the app.
Please someone make a copy of this without all the bullshit.
While you make a valid point (for some people), please try to be more civil.
Remember that a real person spent time & energy working on writing and releasing this app. You likely wouldn't say your last sentence to this person in real life, so please refrain from writing it here.
Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).
Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :)
Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)
Totally hear the sentiment in the comment. For our V1 release we wanted to have good social and community features, because that really how you win over super-users for this kind of an app.
So we wanted to make sure everyone using the app was able to get that full experience. There's lots of room for experimenting with other approaches, but so far users seem to be really like that side of the experience too.
I don't see the point of this with newer generation cameras. Almost all drivers nowadays support the "photo burst" mode where you take a single photo and the driver gives you back X frames before and after the fact (at full resolution). I think Nokia calls it Perfect Shot
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 60.6 ms ] threadBy shooting a video instead of just one shot, you have a better chance of getting that perfect moment.
Resolution is interesting because video resolution is actually enough for a lot of purposes - sharing to FB or viewing on a retina phone display for ex.
Would love to get your feedback! Both about what's there now in version 1, and where you would like to see this go in the future..
Thanks
2. You could make an auto-Leibovitz mode that picks each person's best face and merges them into a single photo.
3. Gifs!
Also, are there reasons the app doesn't tap the slo-motion capability of the iPhone 5s (and 5 can do 60fps iirc)? I'd imagine you'd have crisper stills, but you would need to sift through a lot more of them :) and also they might be more grainy.
The Vhoto app just makes that easier, and helps jump to interesting / distinct / clear frames. You can do it entirely by hand by trying to scrub to the right frame, but point of the app (and the computer vision algos behind it) is to make it easy and do most of the work for you.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing#Opera...
Please someone make a copy of this without all the bullshit.
Remember that a real person spent time & energy working on writing and releasing this app. You likely wouldn't say your last sentence to this person in real life, so please refrain from writing it here.
Just letting you know that I agree with this comment's point (though not its tone).
Could this be made available without all the social and sharing stuff? :) Maybe after you build your user base you can open source it? (free for people like us but not jeopardizing your competitive advantage since you already have the network)
So we wanted to make sure everyone using the app was able to get that full experience. There's lots of room for experimenting with other approaches, but so far users seem to be really like that side of the experience too.
Frame blurriness, faces and smiles, balance.. what else?
Great idea though.