"Can you enhance that?" the CSI detective asks a bespectacled computer nerd, pointing at a six-pixel area of CCTV footage that may or may not be a driver's license. Two seconds later, they have the perp's name, birthdate, address, shoe size, IQ, favorite color, list of allergies and Netflix viewing history. But to photographers sitting on an old library of photos that leave something to be desired in the resolution and clarity front, it's a long-standing dream. Online photo editing tool Picsart today launched a new AI-powered image-enhancement tool to nudge dreams toward reality. The tool is able to offer image enhancement and upscaling that improves the overall quality of an image and resolution for printing or sharing online. The company explains it uses advanced AI models to remove or blur pixelated effects, add pixels and sharpen and restore scenes and objects, including faces.

Your new WiFi network will be called WiFi 6, there are rumors of a new Switch console (already?), and Disney made a spray-painting drone. Yesterday was a bumper day for gaming news, too -- fancy playing Civilization on your iPhone or Mario Kart VR? Then we've got something for you. Will they call it Switch Pro or Switch One X?WSJ: New Nintendo Switch planned for 2019 Nintendo Switch sales are going great, and the company wants to keep them that way. Its plan to do that, the Wall Street Journal reports, will include launching a new version of the convertible console in the second half of 2019. The rumor suggests that instead of a new OLED screen, Nintendo could upgrade the LCD and make one that's thinner with narrower bezels. Smart.Google Assistant upgrades make it easier to use and easier to spend money on Google has announced a pair of upgrades for its AI assistant.

This is thanks to computational photography that will make each snap shot look like it was taken using a professional camera. There is no denying that one of the most sought after features of any smartphone today is its camera. Ever since image sharing sites and social media platforms rose to popularity, sharing pictures of just about anything has taken over the lives of many people around the world. Smartphone manufacturers started developing camera phones that can capture high-quality images to satisfy the needs of photo-savvy individuals. If that is not enough, some of these mobile phone giants partnered with famous camera makers to create the best camera phones of today.

Camera phones become more sophisticated every year, and it's changing the landscape of photography. Professionals are using their smartphones in place of hefty DSLRs, and indie filmmakers are shooting everything from music videos to feature-length dramas. With advanced features and tons of free editing software, the camera phone may become the lens of the future. Tip in a Tip: Apple's camera app is good, but there are better free apps to capture and share your memories. That little camera is useful for so much more than snapshots and home videos.

Planetary exploration by autonomous robotic systems cannot be carried out successfully unless significant testing of the underlying computer vision algorithms is performed. In our previous work, we have demonstrated the use of a wearable computer system, the Cyborg Astrobiologist, capable of testing computer-vision algorithms as part of semi-autonomous exploration systems at remote geological and astrobiological field sites (McGuire et al., 2004, 2005). In that work, we showed that the exploration system, which was based upon newly-developed'uncommon maps' and previously-developed'interest maps' (Rae et al., 1999; McGuire et al., 2002), could viably and robustly be utilized during remote field missions to localize interesting geochemical or hydrological features. Our system carries out the navigation process using the lower end of the spectral resolution, making use of three colour imagery to distinguish between regions of unusual colour. Navigation using higher spectral resolution spectrometry, for example, navigation based on mineralogical differences, will yield more interesting results but this is beyond the scope of the current work.