Applications of ML – Improving Depth detection, Night Sight, Video Play and Notifications

Here are a few fascinating applications of ML. I mostly track business applications of ML so I was pleasantly surprised to see how Unsupervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning (two ML techniques that do not get much coverage) was being used by two of the biggies in the AI and ML space.

The first two – Depth detection and Nightsight are posts from Google AI Blog.  The following concepts were covered in these posts.

• PSL Positive shutter lag
• Motion metering
• Exposure stacking
• Astrophotography
• Super-resolution
• Auto white balancing and Learning based AWB algorithm
• Ultra long shot photography
• Optical Image stabilization

  Facebook Horizon article covered how they were improving user experience with Reinforcement Learning.

• Improving video playing using Reinforcement Learning (RL)
• Improving user notifications using Reinforcement Learning

Links to articles:

1. Under the hood of the Pixel 2: How AI is supercharging hardware – Google AI 
2. Google AI Blog: Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones –
3. Horizon: An open-source reinforcement learning platform – Facebook Code