alt Hacker News> Something that surprised me is that very little of the computation photography magic that has been developed for mobile phones has been applied to larger DSLRs. Perhaps it's because it's not as desperately needed, or because prior to the current AI madness nobody had sufficient GPU power lying around for such a purpose.
Sony Alpha 6000 had face detection in 2014.
Sure, and my camera can do bird eye detection and whatnot too, but that's a very lightweight model running in-body. Probably just a fine-tuned variant of something like YOLO.
I've seen only a couple of papers from Google talking about stacking multiple frames from a DSLR, but that was only research for improving mobile phone cameras.
Ironically, some mobile phones now have more megapixels than my flagship full-frame camera, yet they manage to stack and digitally process multiple frames using battery power!
This whole thing reminds me of the Silicon Graphics era, where the sales person would tell you with a straight face that it's worth spending $60K on a workstation and GPU combo that can't even texture map when I just got a Radeon for $250 that runs circles around it.
One industry's "impossible" is a long-since overcome minor hurdle for another.