Google unlocks Pixel 2's AI-based semantic image technology for developers

With this public release, the search engine giant hopes to make it easier for other groups in academia and industry to reproduce and further improve state-of-the-art systems

Search engine and software giant Google, a has open-sourced its artificial intelligence-based ‘Semantic Image Segmentation’ technology – a technology used in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL portrait mode to achieve shallow depth-of-field effect without the need for a secondary camera.

“Today, we are excited to announce the open-source release of our latest and best-performing semantic image segmentation model, DeepLab-v3+, implemented in Tensorflow. This release includes DeepLab-v3+ models built on top of a powerful convolutional neural network (CNN) backbone architecture for the most accurate results, intended for server-side deployment. As part of this release, we are additionally sharing our Tensorflow