Samsung’s Moon Shots Using The Company’s ‘Space Zoom’ Technology Are Fake As They Use An AI Model To Add Extra Details

Samsung introduced its ‘Space Zoom’ feature with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, and with it, a ludicrous 100x magnification option that could be used to capture those impressive moon shots that all of us have seen in the company’s marketing material and on the internet. However, one Redditor has accumulated evidence and concluded that all those images were nothing more than Samsung taking advantage of an AI model and piecing data together to create a high-resolution image. In short, those images were fake.

Very little work is being done by the cameras to process the image, with hundreds of machine-learning algorithms trained to create a moon shot

Others may have tried to debunk the authenticity of Samsung’s moon shots, but Redditor u/ibreakphotos has shared some tremendous information on the thread, showing how easy it is to create such moon shots. First, he downloaded a near-perfect image of the moon from the internet below, downscaled it to a resolution of 170 x 170, and applied a gaussian blur, removing all the detail.

This is not a picture captured by Samsung’s Space Zoom, but one downloaded from the internet

Then, he upscaled that blurred image to 4x, so that anyone viewing the moon now has a clearer picture of what is going on. Now, here is the fun part; u/ibreakphotos turns off all the lights in his room, goes to the opposite end of it, zooms in on his monitor through his smartphone, and snaps an image. He also provided a side-by-side comparison of both the blurred image of the moon and the one taken from his phone.

He later explains that Samsung has taken advantage of an AI model that incorporates exceptional detail in the image, such as craters, which would otherwise have been missing, creating nothing more than a blurred image. When an AI model is specifically trained on hundreds, if not thousands of images of the moon, it is clear that the image can come out more pleasing than expected. At the end of the Reddit post, he provides a brief summary of what exactly Samsung is up to.

“TL:DR Samsung is using AI/ML (neural network trained on 100s of images of the moon) to recover/add the texture of the moon on your moon pictures, and while some think that's your camera's capability, it's actually not. And it's not sharpening, it's not adding detail from multiple frames because in this experiment, all the frames contain the same amount of detail.

None of the frames have the craters etc. because they're intentionally blurred, yet the camera somehow miraculously knows that they are there. And don't even get me started on the motion interpolation on their "super slow-mo", maybe that's another post in the future.”

Here is a side-by-side comparison of the moon shots provided by the Redditor u/ibreakphotos

Companies go to enormous lengths to mislead the public with endless waves of advertising. Critics have pointed fingers at Samsung in the past, questioning the veracity of these images, but we are glad that someone was finally able to reproduce the results that we have wanted to see. Hopefully, this will force Samsung to change its stance on its advertising and dedicate more resources towards developing more capable cameras that can actually capture aesthetically upgraded moon shots.

We highly recommend clicking on the source link below and reading what u/ibreakphotos is talking about because we can only imagine the number of hours it took to call out a company on one misleading advertising tactic.

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