Google’s image-recognition AI just got way smarter.
The company announced a new computer-vision platform, Google Lens, which could give our smartphone cameras even more power, during its I/O developer conference Wednesday.
CEO Sundar Pichai showed off Google Lens with an innocuous image of a little girl playing baseball, taken from behind a chainlink backstop. It was a cute pic — but the criss-crossing metal of the fence in the foreground was a bit of a bummer.
That is, until Pichai activated the Lens image and erased the fence from the foreground, with no degradation of the image of the little girl at the plate.
It even has an AR function, as Pichai then demoed the camera scanning a street full of storefronts, with their Google listing popping up automatically once the AI recognizes the space.
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Source: Mashable