Alice Camera™: An AI camera made for content creators

Photogram Ltd是一家计算摄影初创公司，专门从事用于现代内容创作的AI加速硬件和软件。我们的项目跨越了深度技术和创意产业之间的界限，旨在为创意人员提供必要的，开放的和现代的技术，以增强他们的艺术形式。我们正处于计算机视觉、人工智能、物联网以及创意、摄影和消费品的交叉点。我们的解决方案是The Alice Camera（TM），这是一款专为内容创作者和现代摄影而打造的新型AI相机。这是一款颠覆性的产品，因为它将相机重新想象成一台计算机，具有可互换的透镜系统，专业品质的成像传感器和尖端的AI加速硬件和软件，以处理最新的计算摄影功能。想象一下，有一台设备可以为您提供数码单反相机、无反光镜相机和智能手机的最佳元素。摄影艺术形式正处于生存危机之中，其规模与数码相机取代胶片时相似。相机制造商和摄影师都认为，让相机变得更好的最佳方法是使用更快的玻璃，更大的传感器和复杂的机械解决方案;导致重量增加，使用困难和成本增加。然而，智能手机现在可以控制其低质量的光学系统，以产生比它们应该能够产生的质量好得多的图像。智能手机最重要的方面现在是它的计算能力，在其处理器上运行的算法，以及用于训练这些算法的数据集的大小和质量。目前，在专业人士市场上没有像我们这样的端到端解决方案，最密切相关的产品提供拍摄到共享工作流程的断开连接的元素。Photogram AI于2019年7月在伦敦的深度技术加速器Entrepreneur First上成立。该公司在伦敦国王十字车站的UCL创新与企业大学孵化器中孵化。自成立以来，Photogram与其他著名机构和合作伙伴建立了牢固的关系，以帮助研究，开发和营销Alice Camera（TM）的愿景。该公司加入了英国政府的创新中心Digital Catapult Machine Intelligence Garage和5G加速器计划，以及NVIDIA的人工智能初创企业加速器，这些初创企业彻底改变了行业，赢得了总计20万英镑的云计算积分和支持，以培训、运行和部署其专有的人工智能模型并测试物联网硬件。此外，Photogram还与创新英国支持的初创公司Additive Flow合作，作为他们的可持续性和材料工程咨询合作伙伴;前戴森运营机构Aetha Design作为他们的产品和工业设计咨询合作伙伴; Mettle Studios作为他们的应用程序和软件工程咨询合作伙伴; SMS电子公司是英国最大和最古老的合同制造商之一，作为他们的制造供应商，伦敦& Partners是伦敦市长的公关机构，作为他们的业务增长顾问。该项目将寻求证明，通过更快地向使用英国制造的客户部署技术，可以在消费电子产品价值链中创造大量的全国性效率。它将强调我们/英国在人工智能创新技术前沿的声誉，并为我们提供出口机会。

Photogram Ltd is a computational photography startup specialising in AI-accelerated hardware and software for modern content creation. Our project crosses the boundaries between deep tech and the creative industries with a vision to empower creatives with the necessary, open, and modern technology to enhance their art form. We are at the intersection of computer vision, artificial intelligence, IoT, as well as creativity, photography, and consumer goods.Our solution is The Alice Camera(TM) a novel AI camera built for content creators and modern photography. A disruptive product because it reimagines the camera developed as a computer, featuring an interchangeable lens system, professional-quality imaging sensor and cutting-edge AI-accelerated hardware and software to process the latest computational photography features. Imagine having one device that gives you the best elements of a DSLR, mirrorless camera, and smartphone.The photographic art form is in the midst of an existential crisis, similar in scale to when digital replaced film. Camera makers and photographers alike have assumed that the best way to make cameras better is with faster glass, bigger sensors, and complex mechanical solutions; leading to increased weight, difficulty of use, and costs. However, smartphones can now control their low-quality optical systems to produce images with much better quality than they should be capable of producing. A smartphone's most important aspects are now its computational power, the algorithms running on its processors, and the size and quality of the datasets used to train those algorithms. Currently, there is no end-to-end solution like ours in the market for professionals, with the closest related products delivering disconnected elements of the shoot-to-share workflow.Photogram AI was founded in July 2019 on Entrepreneur First, a deep tech accelerator in London. The company is incubated at the UCL Innovation & Enterprise university incubator in King's Cross, London. Since founding, Photogram has built strong relationships with other prestigious institutions and partners to help research, develop, and market the vision of the Alice Camera(TM) to their customers. The company joined the Digital Catapult Machine Intelligence Garage and 5G accelerator programmes, the British government's innovation hub, and NVIDIA's accelerator for AI start-ups revolutionizing industries winning a total of £200,000 of cloud computing credits and support to train, run and deploy their proprietary AI models and test IoT hardware. Additionally, Photogram is working with Additive Flow, an Innovate UK backed startup, as their sustainability and materials engineering consulting partner; Aetha Design, an ex-Dyson run agency, as their product and industrial design consulting partner; Mettle Studios, as their app and software engineering consulting partner; SMS electronics, one of Britain's largest and oldest contract manufacturer, as their manufacturing supplier, and London & Partners, the Mayor of London's PR agency, as their business growth advisers.The project will seek to demonstrate substantial countrywide efficiencies can be created in the consumer electronics value chain, through faster deployment of technology to customers using UK manufacturing. It will underline our/Britain's reputation at the forefront of AI-enabled creative technologies, and provide us opportunities to export.