In recent days, Samsung has come under fire over allegations of faking shots of the Moon on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. It all started when Redditor u/ibreakphotos he put a blurry image of the moon on his monitor and took a picture with the Galaxy S23 Ultra, which then produced a beautiful moon. Outlets then started picking it up and now Samsung felt the need to explain its process to the world.
Samsung has provided a detailed and technical explanation of how its moonshot works. The article has actually been online for some time, only in Korean, but the recent controversy gave us the English version. Samsung uses Scene Optimizer, AI Deep Learning and Super Resolution. The moon shot will activate when you have enabled the scene optimizer and zoomed in over 25x, the AI Deep Learning Engine, which is preloaded with a variety of moon shapes and details, will recognize the moon, then Super Resolution applies the multi-frame processing to enhance the moon.
This is nothing new. Samsung has been doing the same thing since the Galaxy S20 Ultra premiered “100x Space Zoom,” and it’s certainly not the only manufacturer to use that kind of processing.
So Samsung’s shots of the moon aren’t technically fake, they’re enhanced using artificial intelligence. In reality, you don’t get the final image from your phone’s lens and sensor, but more from its processing engine. But really, what did you expect? You need a huge lens, a tripod and an expensive dedicated camera to get a decent picture of the moon.
Anyway, we’ll probably talk about it in another two or three years, when people forget about it yet again and someone will talk about it again.
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