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Xiaomi launched its new flagship Mi 11 last night, which is also the first smartphone to feature the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. Along with the high-end SoC, the company also showcased the phone with various innovative technologies. One of them is the inclusion of night video mode, which allows real-time low-light enhancements to be processed thanks to AI machine learning.
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The technology itself is a collaborative effort between Xiaomi and BlinkAI, the Boston-based AI-powered image enhancement solutions company. To showcase its machine learning technology, the latter had recently released two videos with the night video of Mi 11 in action that we have included throughout this article.
Low-light enhancements on smartphones are nothing new, but most of those found on current-generation devices primarily focus on photography rather than video. Additionally, the process requires the user to hold their phone still while capturing light for an extended period and then merge multiple frames to produce an enhanced image in post. Night video developed by Xiaomi and BlinkAI, on the other hand, is the first to enable real-time low-light enhancements for video recording via AI machine learning.
BlinkAI says the technology is based on the neural network framework that attempts to mimic how the human visual system works and claims that its AI-powered computational solutions enable up to five times the application of lighting. The company’s processing software also works in conjunction with Qualcomm’s Neural Processing Unit in the Snapdragon 888, allowing it to apply machine learning algorithms to improve the quality of low-light videos in just milliseconds.
The Xiaomi MI 11 smartphone is currently available in China, starting at RMB 3,999 (~ RMB 2,479). The company has yet to announce the availability of the new flagship for the global market.
(Source: Blink AI [1] [2] via XDA)
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