Recently, the tech world has been dealing with a "controversy" regarding the phone's capability Galaxy S23 Ultra to take pictures of the moon. Some claim that Samsung uses artificial intelligence to overlay images on them and that this is actually a scam. Samsung responded to these voices explanation, that it does not apply any overlay images to the images of the moon, but even that did not convince some doubters. The Korean giant has now been supported by the respected technology YouTube channel Techisode TV (it is run by an engineer), who has come up with an even more detailed explanation of how "it" actually works.
In a nutshell, according to Techisode TV, Samsung's Moon photos work by synthesizing more than ten photos of the Moon that you take and combining the image data from all those photos to create the highest possible version, while reducing noise and improving sharpness and detail with the Super Resolution feature . These combined results are then further enhanced using artificial intelligence that the Korean giant has trained to recognize the moon in each of its phases. However, this interpretation does not explain the now famous (or rather infamous) blurry photo of the moon, with which a certain user Reddit tried to prove that pictures of the moon taken with a phone Galaxy S23 Ultra are fake. Or yes?
Techisode TV explains this too, by saying that the aforementioned Reddit user blurred the moon using Gaussian blur. This allowed Samsung's AI to run the numbers backwards and come up with a much clearer image seemingly devoid of any image data. Samsung's convolutional neural network essentially improves image sharpness and detail by doing the exact opposite of Gaussian blur.
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Finally, the best proof that Samsung isn't faking the moon photos is that the same technology that Galaxy Used by the S23 Ultra to enhance images of the moon, it is used to enhance any photo taken at a high enough zoom level - whether it is a photo of the moon or not. So it's much more than an AI trained to enhance moon photos using existing textures and data from memory. It's actually something like complex math that tries to "guess" reality from the information you give it.
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So you can rest easy. Samsung's camera AI doesn't "paste" pre-made images onto your photos taken with telephoto lenses to make them more realistic. Instead, it uses complex AI-driven math to calculate what reality should look like given the informace, which it receives through the camera sensor and lenses. That being said, it does this for every photo taken at high zoom levels, and it does it very well.
It took you a long time, Samsung has these documents on the website since 2019 :DD
Maybe better late than never ;-).