Perfectly Clear…the World Leader in Intelligent Image Correction Just Got Smarter With AI Scene Detection

Perfectly Clear’s automatic intelligence is more robust than ever with part 1 of 3 upcoming AI releases

EyeQ is excited to announce we have made another big leap in innovation with the introduction of AI Scene Detection which uses artificial intelligence. By processing over 50.5 billion photos per year, we’ve been able to identify common themes and build an AI platform to leverage all this amassed intelligence. So while Perfectly Clear has always been an intelligent product, our new AI Scene Detection feature takes correction accuracy and the ability to assess different scenes to a next level.  

By the way, this won’t be our only AI innovation! Stay tuned in the upcoming weeks for even more…

There are two key benefits from the new feature:

1. By knowing the lighting conditions and scenes in a photo, you can do more with the image, independent of our correction algorithms
2. Wider range and more robust corrections – by understanding the lighting conditions and scene, we can apply laser-focused corrections specific to the photo. This is accomplished through our new AI Scene Detection auto setting that has the capability to apply different correction parameters via different presets to the photo. 

As Jeff Stephens, EyeQ’s chief technologist and co-founder, explains it, “When you have an image with a baby in it, you don’t want a vibrant correction but rather you want a soft touch applied. So AI Scene Detection will do just that. The opposite would be true with something like a sunset, where you want to push the vibrancy. With AI Scene Detection, we can push the color to bring out the vividness in the scene which cameras have a tough time capturing. It really is a game-changer in terms of accurately assessing what’s in the photo and applying the best and most appropriate correction.” 

EyeQ’s engineering team took the time and care to choose 12 scenes and lighting conditions that showed improvement with a different preset than the existing iAuto 2021 feature. Other scenes not included were proven to look best with the current iAuto 2021 parameters. Stephens notes that there is also an option for EyeQ to build in custom scenes for a customer’s specific business and needs if that is required. 

The 12 scenes and lighting conditions are as follows: 

1. Infants 
2. Back Light 
3. Over Exposed 
4. People at Night 
5. Yearbook
6. Posed Portraits 
7. Night Scene 
8. Sunsets
9. Clipart
10. Monochrome
11. Landscape Scene
12. Other – iAuto ‘21

More scenes are coming! Keep in mind that if you have a scene you need for your business, we can create it for you.

Plus, AI Scene Detection is fast and doesn’t require any exotic hardware— it runs on the CPU. 

AI Scene Detection was created to work in conjunction with Perfectly Clear, but this technology can also be used and implemented outside of Perfectly Clear. If your business is in need of scene detection, you can contact us at sales@eyeq.photos. 

FAQs

What if More Than One Scene Is Detected In My Photo?

AI Scene Detection will choose whatever correction we have trained it to know is more important. We have created a default tiered system that can also be changed based on your business needs. For example, it is probably more important for a photo of a baby at sunset to receive soft correction on the baby than it is for the photo to receive a vibrant sunset correction. Therefore, the baby correction would kick in rather than the sunset correction. This ensures the most accurate correction. 

I Don’t See a Scene Listed That Is Important to My Business

If we don’t have a scene listed that is important to your business, we can add it for you. We’ll work with you to create an accurate preset and gather about 1,000 photos to train our AI Scene Detection engine. If we have everything we need, it will only take about two weeks to train the engine!

How Do I Update to Perfectly Clear with AI Scene Detection? 

For SDK customers, an update is very easy and will most likely be a drop in for many implementations. Please contact your personal sales associate or email us at sales@eyeq.photos. QuickDesk and QuickServer customers will be able to update through AppsManager. For now, see below on how to test.

Is AI Scene Detection Available Now?

Currently, you can test AI Scene Detection through Workbench. If you have Workbench installed, just update it through AppsManager and get testing! We plan to roll this new technology out to customers as soon as possible, and we will contact customers directly when the update is officially available.

Compare iAuto 2021 with AI Scene Detection

AI Scene Detection presets are only implemented when Perfectly Clear believes the result will be better than the iAuto preset. See for yourself!