From the outset, Microsoft Pix has used artificial intelligence to help people more easily capture better pictures of family and friends with an iPhone. Now, you can use the smartphone camera app to take better pictures of documents, whiteboards and business cards, too. Because, let's face it, we all use our cameras to take photos of more than just people and places. "We have data that shows people are taking a lot of whiteboard photos at work, they are doing a lot of document scanning," said Josh Weisberg, a principal program manager in the Computational Photography Group within Microsoft's research organization in Redmond, Washington. Based on the app data and customer feedback, Weisberg's team released an update on Thursday to Microsoft Pix that includes enhanced deep-learning capabilities around image understanding to address several productivity scenarios. The update is available for download via iTunes.

Microsoft is rolling out an update to its AI-powered photo editing app, Microsoft Pix, that aims to give Prisma and others like it some new competition. While the app was originally designed to enhance your iPhone photos by tweaking things like color, exposure and other variables, the newly updated Microsoft Pix will now let you have a little more fun with your photos, too – this time, by turning them into art. Similar to Prisma, the new app introduces a feature called Pix Styles, which allows you to transform your photos into works of art, and use other effects. For example, one effect will make the picture look like it's on fire. These are not photo filters, to be clear – the styles actually transfer texture, pattern and tones to the photo, explains Microsoft.

Microsoft is rolling out an update to its AI-powered photo editing app, Microsoft Pix, that aims to give Prisma and others like it some new competition. While the app was originally designed to enhance your iPhone photos by tweaking things like color, exposure and other variables, the newly updated Microsoft Pix will now let you have a little more fun with your photos, too – this time, by turning them into art. Similar to Prisma, the new app introduces a feature called Pix Styles, which allows you to transform your photos into works of art, and use other effects. For example, one effect will make the picture look like it's on fire. These are not photo filters, to be clear – the styles actually transfer texture, pattern and tones to the photo, explains Microsoft.

Microsoft has joined the selfie movement with a new app that adds flare to your photos - and tries to guess your age. Called Sprinkles, the application lets users add captions, stickers and text to selfies using the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The technology suggests ideas based on what's in the photo, the location, date and will also guess your age and celebrity look-a-like. Sprinkles, the application lets users add captions, stickers and text to selfies using the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The technology suggests ideas based on what's in the photo, the location, date and will also guess your age and celebrity look-a-like (although in this case, it got the age wrong) Sprinkles will automatically add captions to your uploaded selfie, which you swipe through different options, and are relevant to the photo, location and date.

We asked the representatives of Strategic Technologies Department "Microsoft Russia" to tell us how a new device Pix works and what services were used creating it. Professional photographers are familiar with the feeling when you take million shots expecting a perfect one, when it is essential to capture the moment because in a split second the shot will change forever. We all remember the feeling when we want to feel ourselves a pro and get a unique perfect shot using a smartphone, which is always with us, but unfortunately lacks some functions of a professional camera. Microsoft scientific-research team offered a solution of this problem and developed Microsoft Pix, an app for iPhone aimed at adjusting the settings for taking the best shots (ISO, exposition, focus) using the technologies of artificial intelligence. In this article we are going to consider it from a user's and developer's perspectives.