<story><title>Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-processing-and-machine-learning-pixel-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dharma1</author><text>In addition to still photos, would love to see exposure fusion (or HDR+ as Google calls it) in mobile video too. RED Epic and Scarlet cameras do this with 2 exposures per frame and call it HDRx, I&amp;#x27;ve found it adds about 4 stops of dynamic range in grading.  RED doesn&amp;#x27;t do any fancy anti-ghosting stuff though like HDR+. Magic Lantern firmware for Canon dSLR&amp;#x27;s also does something similar with dual ISO frames.&lt;p&gt;This together with 10bit video profile for h265 (think phone hardware is capable now but haven&amp;#x27;t seen any phones with 10bit video yet) would make mobile video a whole lot better, right now it frankly sucks for anything with high contrast or dynamic range.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-processing-and-machine-learning-pixel-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>This is pretty much Tensorflow on metal. Considering that tensorflow works pretty well on most mobile phone GPU, im betting this feature can be turned on for most phones if Google wants.&lt;p&gt;I would love to see the apples to apples comparison of the Pixel tensorflow computation running on a vanilla snapdragon GPU vs this custom core.&lt;p&gt;Also will be interesting to know why halide and not opencv.</text></comment>