Artificial intelligence in photo editing: two instances
Published: 2022-09-15 04:07:55

## Artificial intelligence: What is it?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an application system that employs digital computers or machines controlled by them to replicate, extend, and expand human intelligence, sense the environment, gain knowledge, and apply that knowledge to get the best results.
Specifically, it is based on developing a system that enables machine learning case experience to increase continuously in order to mimic human operation technology on the computer interface, carry out pertinent process tasks automatically in accordance with the rules, and either assist or replace humans in carrying out essential computer operations.
 

## AI in Pictures:
 
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a kind of technology that use electronic devices (such as scanners or digital cameras) to convert the text in paper documents into black and white dot matrix image files and to convert the text in images into text format through recognition software. Technology for further editing and processing by word processing software.
In layman's terms, it is a technology that scans text data, and then analyzes and processes image files to obtain text and layout information.
 
## Image Evaluation System
In 2018, Google released a system called the Neuronal Imaging Assessment System (NIMA). The system can judge a photo as "good or bad," and it gives a score that's very close to what a person would say. This is because it learns the human evaluation of photos, and then integrates this evaluation data to form a complete evaluation system.
"This evaluation system can analyze the combination of composition, color, and object position, and make judgments based on the collected data to score your photos," Engadget reported.
 
Even, NIMA can also reflect personal style. As long as the photos entered into the data and comments are of a uniform style, NIMA will develop a specific style during this learning process.
That is to say if the photo data and evaluation you enter into it are all your own views, then after a long-term view of your single photo, it will eventually form an aesthetic style consistent with yours.
That way, it can both comment on your photos and help while you shoot. When you open the viewfinder, the artificial intelligence that has learned your shooting style can recognize the current picture and composition, so that the current suitable plan can be selected more accurately, and it can also provide a shooting master's photography idea for those who do not know how to take pictures.
 
## AI Remove Background
 
Dozens of photo editing companies have released AI-powered automatic background removal in recent years. "We are committed to providing users with 100% automatic [background remover](https://www.fotor.com/features/background-remover)er of the Ai editing function." Their advertisement said.
 
Indeed, for users, this system gets rid of the traditional manual Photoshop operations to remove the background, allowing them to get an accurate background-free image within a minute.
This is because the system performs calculations and continuous accurate learning for human detection and portrait segmentation.
Human detection means that artificial intelligence first finds all the objects or objects of interest in the image through an algorithm, and determines their location and size. Through operations such as zooming in and zooming out, artificial intelligence determines the scope of the object.
Then the artificial intelligence will classify the pixels around the object target, roughly divide a photo into the foreground, background, and unknown areas, and then use semantic segmentation algorithms such as the Deeplab algorithm to accurately outline the outline of the foreground object and retain the outline of the object.
This series of seemingly troublesome algorithms will generate the desired background removal effect within 5 seconds, and as the machine learns and detects the range of the picture, it will become more and more proficient, and the segmentation of the picture will be more accurate.
 
 
## Think Further
In fact, the algorithms of artificial intelligence in the field of images are not only the two examples listed above.
Maybe you've also heard of automatically generating non-existent faces, importing a person's photo into the system will generate a smiling expression...
It all sounds horrific as if people can use artificial intelligence to deceive and act dishonestly with the naked eye. For example, maybe we see a photo of a person on a Nordic beach, but that person has been in the tropics.
Maybe we see a person socially posting selfies with various expressions, but the person doesn't actually exist...it may just be an AI-generated fake face.
 
But if you think about it, artificial intelligence is also very helpful in our lives, even in the field of photos.
Imagine that we can easily imitate 100% of other people's photography skills at any time, and get machine evaluations that are very close to human evaluations, which improves our aesthetics. We can now easily replace photo backgrounds in 5 seconds, increasing productivity.
While securing information in the future, these technologies will only bring more convenience, right?