Lately the photographic capacities of smartphones have expanded quickly. In any case, the issue is that practically all organizations attempt to get the most beautiful result in the photographs of their phones, either through post-download handling or through AI, with the final product being beautiful to the eye yet very a long way from the genuine picture. We see this significantly more strongly in selfies, with Google needing to stop it.
A Google compatibility document for Android 11 has been leaked by XDA-Developers, which seems to want to change that. The document states that one of the proposed changes is to ban face-adjusting algorithms in the manufacturers’ default camera application.
The text reads:
02/12/2020 145841721 7.5.4. Camera API Behavior
[C-0-12] For any android. hardware.camera2.CameraDevice or android. hardware. Camera API MUST ensure that the facial appearance is NOT altered including but not limited to altering facial geometry, facial skin tone, or facial skin smoothening.
This does not mean that the application can not have a ” beauty mode ” for example, but that it should not be the default function of the application. The default should be close to reality, ie without changing the faces of the photo in any way, with users if they want to change it through the settings.
Of course, neither the manufacturers nor the users may like this, as most users will leave the settings as they are and will simply complain. Especially when even Apple for two generations has face filters by default in its photos.
