Google is using a technique called Rapid and Accurate Image Super Resolution, or RAISR (as in razor-sharp) to enable upload of high-resolution pics while cutting down the bandwidth consumption by 75 percent (that’s 75%!!!) for a single image, which means images load faster and consume less data,as said in a blog post.
It’s great news for photographers of all specialities, skills and genres have long made their home on Google+, sharing their work with a supportive community. Whether it’s of toys, travel or street art, each photo has a unique story to tell, and deserves to be viewed at the best possible resolution.
This initiative comes from the desire to help users who have data caps, spotty Internet connection, or both to view high-quality photos without sucking all their data or taking forever to load.
Google has been very active when it comes to improving services with deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence that involves training artificial neural networks. While the company has only begun to roll this out for high-resolution images when they appear in the streams of a subset of Android devices, the company is already applying RAISR to more than 1 billion images per week, reducing these users’ total bandwidth by about a third. In the coming weeks we plan to roll this technology out more broadly.
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