Why computational video is the next big battleground for smartphone cameras

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Computational photography has transformed how we take pictures with our phones. You may not have noticed, though, because the final effect is we simply no longer need to think about the limitations of phone cameras, and whether a particular scene is too much for them to handle.   

When we look back to the early years of smartphones, what we used to think represented a “good” phone camera seems almost comical today. 

Overexposed parts of pictures appeared more often than not, and even the best cameras took dismal low-light pictures compared to an affordable mid-range smartphone …

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