January 1, 2021 marks the launch date of Xiaomi’s M11 smartphone and with it, a new AI-driven “Night Video” mode takes the stage of mobile video recording. Let’s take a look at what that even means! Using your smartphone to record videos isn’t new, and while it still feels a little weird to me, it’s definitely a thing. Well, Xiaomi has just released its new M11 flagship phone and with it they are introducing a brand new SoC (System on a Chip) for it: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888. This is the latest generation of very high-end SoCs and although it is already capable of doing crazy things with the phone’s camera system, Xiaomi didn’t stop there. Xiaomi Mi11 camera syzstem. Image credit: Xiaomi Xiaomi & BlinkAI ‘Night Video’ mode BlinkAI is a US-based company that specializes in advanced artificial intelligence applications. Xiaomi has teamed up with them to implement a feature called “Night Video” in their M11 flagship smartphone. As the name suggests, this mode allows you to record high-quality videos in near-dark environments. The cool thing is that the AI engine does not depend on some kind of cloud service, but taps into the on-device processing provided by the Snapdragon 888 SoC. The important part here is called the Neural Processing Unit. BlinkAI then applies its machine learning algorithms in near real-time to enhance video captured in low-light environments to produce far less noisy output than would be possible without processing. The videos above, especially the second one look a...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 7 January, 2021