{"id":28831,"date":"2020-04-29T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28831"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:05:26","slug":"iphone-se-2020-single-image-monocular-depth-estimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/29\/iphone-se-2020-single-image-monocular-depth-estimation\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone SE 2020: Single Image Monocular Depth Estimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/iphone-se-the-one-eyed-king-96713d65a3b1\">Ben Sandofsky<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halidecamera\/status\/1254841563206676486\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.halide.cam\/iphone-se-the-one-eyed-king-96713d65a3b1\"><p>In English, this is the first iPhone that can generate a portrait effect using nothing but a single, 2D image.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The new iPhone SE can&rsquo;t use focus pixels, because its older sensor doesn&rsquo;t have enough coverage. Instead, it generates depth <em>entirely<\/em> through machine learning. It&rsquo;s easy to test this yourself: take a picture of another picture.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So why does Apple prevent the first party app from shooting non-people? They have a second process that works really well with humans in the frame. Without humans, it sometimes fails in weird ways.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/22\/iphone-se-2020-reviews\/\">iPhone SE 2020 Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/15\/iphone-se-2020\/\">iPhone SE 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sandofsky (tweet): In English, this is the first iPhone that can generate a portrait effect using nothing but a single, 2D image. [&#8230;] The new iPhone SE can&rsquo;t use focus pixels, because its older sensor doesn&rsquo;t have enough coverage. Instead, it generates depth entirely through machine learning. It&rsquo;s easy to test this yourself: take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-04-29T20:04:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"dff5cd65-7ef4-49ea-9fce-3be096d98523","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-04-29T20:05:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3_XNZX70SeqfzjvgltmFIw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,152,31,1667,85,1938],"class_list":["post-28831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-camera","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-se-2020"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28833,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28831\/revisions\/28833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}