Samsung is working on its own version of Apple's Deep Fusion feature

Ro, 11 September 2019

Apple announced the so-called "Deep Fusion" feature on its iPhone 11-series smartphones the other day, promising excellent photos thanks to an advanced machine-learning algorithm. Details were scarce but it sounded a lot like Google Pixel's HDR+. And according to the latest rumors, Samsung is working on a version of its own.

Samsung is also developing the “Deep Fusion”function similar to the iPhone 11 Pro, and really plays the role of the NPU in taking pictures and videos. We can look forward to the Galaxy S11.
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) September 12, 2019

Ice Universe is a renown Samsung leakster and most of the predictions coming from this Twitter account are on point, so we have a good reason to believe the report. Samsung's new feature is supposed to take advantage of the NPU inside the upcoming Exynos chipset, which will power the upcoming Galaxy S11-series.

Reader comments

A Nonny Moose
17 Sep 2019
K6q

Yeah, but they just copied the 4 wheels of the horse and carriage guys...yawn so unoriginal.

Nick Tagataka
15 Sep 2019
gRx

"machine learning and neural network algorithms" They are mostly for HDR+ processing, such as tile-based image stacking that prevents moving part of the image from being merged, AI white balance correction etc. It's good that PVC supports 3rd party...

Mr. Anonymous
15 Sep 2019
n}%

Google is also using machine learning and neural network algorithms for camera software effects (using Pixel Visual Core, shortly PVC). PVC supports Halide for image processing and TensorFlow for machine learning.