Alice Camera™: An AI camera made for content creators

Photogram Ltd是一家计算摄影初创公司，专注于为现代内容创作提供人工智能加速硬件和软件。我们的项目跨越了深度科技和创意产业之间的界限，我们的愿景是用必要的、开放的和现代的技术来增强创意人员的艺术形式。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Alice Camera(TM)，这是一款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，具有可互换的镜头系统、专业质量的成像传感器和尖端的人工智能加速硬件和软件，以处理最新的计算摄影功能。想象一下，有一个设备能给你提供数码单反相机、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一场生存危机之中，其规模类似于数码技术取代胶片的时代。相机制造商和摄影师都认为，让相机变得更好的最好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。然而，智能手机现在可以控制其低质量的光学系统，以产生比它们应有的质量好得多的图像。现在，智能手机最重要的方面是它的计算能力、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，最接近的相关产品提供了拍摄到共享工作流程的断开连接元素。Photogram AI于2019年7月在伦敦的一家深度科技加速器Entrepreneur First上成立。该公司在伦敦国王十字的UCL创新与企业大学孵化器中孵化。自成立以来，Photogram与其他知名机构和合作伙伴建立了牢固的关系，以帮助研究，开发和向客户推销Alice Camera（TM）的愿景。该公司加入了数字弹射机智能车库和5G加速器计划，英国政府的创新中心，以及NVIDIA的人工智能初创企业加速器，这些初创企业将彻底改变行业，赢得总计20万英镑的云计算积分和支持，以培训、运行和部署他们的专有人工智能模型并测试物联网硬件。此外，Photogram正在与英国创新公司（Innovate UK）支持的初创公司Additive Flow合作，作为其可持续发展和材料工程咨询合作伙伴；Aetha Design，一个前戴森经营的机构，作为他们的产品和工业设计咨询合作伙伴；Mettle Studios，作为他们的应用和软件工程咨询合作伙伴；英国最大、历史最悠久的合同制造商之一SMS electronics作为他们的制造供应商，伦敦市长的公关机构London & Partners作为他们的业务增长顾问。该项目将寻求证明，通过将技术更快地部署到使用英国制造的客户手中，可以在消费电子产品价值链中创造出全国范围内的巨大效率。这将凸显我们/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.