Samsung Moon photos are not real, claims Reddit user; company yet to respond
How does the Space Zoom Moon feature works?
It should be noted that Samsung’s flagship Galaxy phone line, which includes the Galaxy S23 Ultra, has a very high level of zoom for the back cameras, courtesy of the periscope lens. With a 100x zoom level made possible by combining 3x and 10x telephoto cameras with digital zoom and Samsung’s AI Super Resolution technology, it can take photos of things that are very far away.
Redditor’s take on the Samsung Space Zoom Moon photos feature
In a post, the Redditor stated that no one had been able to successfully demonstrate whether the moon photographs from the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra and later models are real or fake until their post, citing prior reporting that they are real and not fake.
In order to test the effect, the user downloaded a high-resolution image of the moon. The image was then downsized to a 170 by 170 resolution image, and a gaussian blur was added to remove any remaining details of the moon’s surface. Then, they put the low-resolution, blurry moon in full screen on their monitor, walked to the other side of their room, zoomed in on the fake celestial body, and took a picture. After some processing, the smartphone made an image of the moon, but the surface had a lot more detail than the original.
According to the post, the user thinks that Samsung is using an AI model to add craters and other details to places that were just a blurry mess. They also say that this seems to be different from super-resolution processing, which uses multiple images to bring back details that would have been lost otherwise.
This is said to be an example of “where you have a specific AI model trained on a set of moon images, in order to recognise the moon and slap on the moon texture on it,” citing the post, AppleInsider reported.
The concept has been used throughout the mobile industry, so it remains to be seen if this brief investigation will prompt further scrutiny of the use of AI in photography. Samsung is yet to comment on the issue, and we’ll update the story once they do.
How does the Space Zoom Moon feature works?
It should be noted that Samsung’s flagship Galaxy phone line, which includes the Galaxy S23 Ultra, has a very high level of zoom for the back cameras, courtesy of the periscope lens. With a 100x zoom level made possible by combining 3x and 10x telephoto cameras with digital zoom and Samsung’s AI Super Resolution technology, it can take photos of things that are very far away.
Redditor’s take on the Samsung Space Zoom Moon photos feature
In a post, the Redditor stated that no one had been able to successfully demonstrate whether the moon photographs from the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra and later models are real or fake until their post, citing prior reporting that they are real and not fake.
In order to test the effect, the user downloaded a high-resolution image of the moon. The image was then downsized to a 170 by 170 resolution image, and a gaussian blur was added to remove any remaining details of the moon’s surface. Then, they put the low-resolution, blurry moon in full screen on their monitor, walked to the other side of their room, zoomed in on the fake celestial body, and took a picture. After some processing, the smartphone made an image of the moon, but the surface had a lot more detail than the original.
According to the post, the user thinks that Samsung is using an AI model to add craters and other details to places that were just a blurry mess. They also say that this seems to be different from super-resolution processing, which uses multiple images to bring back details that would have been lost otherwise.
This is said to be an example of “where you have a specific AI model trained on a set of moon images, in order to recognise the moon and slap on the moon texture on it,” citing the post, AppleInsider reported.
The concept has been used throughout the mobile industry, so it remains to be seen if this brief investigation will prompt further scrutiny of the use of AI in photography. Samsung is yet to comment on the issue, and we’ll update the story once they do.
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