Microsoft Releases Photo Story App for Windows Phone 8.1
Microsoft has
launched a new photo app for its Windows Phone (also Windows 10 Mobile) mobile
operating system. Called Photo Story, the app automatically arranges the besat
representative photos of an event together and makes a themed video album
featuring them. Photo Story is a product of Microsoft Garage Project.Photo Story is a
full-fledged app, which in addition to creating video albums, also offers
editing and sharing tools apart a plethora of transition effects to allow users
to do everything without ever needing another app. It also lets users add
stylised music to the videos.
How the app
categorises the images is just as interesting as the features it comaes with.
Microsoft says that the app uses machine learning in the selection process.
It's worth pointing out that a similar feature was introduced by Google in its Photos app at its developer conference I/O
in May.The app will get
better at recognising and sorting similar photos over time, Microsoft said. "Photo Story's algorithm isn't just
looking for technical quality, such as whether or not it's blurry or the
exposure is correct," the company noted in
a blog post. It looks for something called "interestingness" instead.
But how speedy is the
app? Microsoft insists that the app won't take much time as it does all the
processing on the device itself cutting the waiting period wasted in uploads
and downloads. Photo Story supports voice commands via Cortana, so for instance, saying "Story
from today" will make the app start sorting the photos you took today. You
can download it from the Windows Store.
Microsoft has
launched a new photo app for its Windows Phone (also Windows 10 Mobile) mobile
operating system. Called Photo Story, the app automatically arranges the besat
representative photos of an event together and makes a themed video album
featuring them. Photo Story is a product of Microsoft Garage Project.Photo Story is a
full-fledged app, which in addition to creating video albums, also offers
editing and sharing tools apart a plethora of transition effects to allow users
to do everything without ever needing another app. It also lets users add
stylised music to the videos.
How the app
categorises the images is just as interesting as the features it comaes with.
Microsoft says that the app uses machine learning in the selection process.
It's worth pointing out that a similar feature was introduced by Google in its Photos app at its developer conference I/O
in May.The app will get
better at recognising and sorting similar photos over time, Microsoft said. "Photo Story's algorithm isn't just
looking for technical quality, such as whether or not it's blurry or the
exposure is correct," the company noted in
a blog post. It looks for something called "interestingness" instead.
But how speedy is the
app? Microsoft insists that the app won't take much time as it does all the
processing on the device itself cutting the waiting period wasted in uploads
and downloads. Photo Story supports voice commands via Cortana, so for instance, saying "Story
from today" will make the app start sorting the photos you took today. You
can download it from the Windows Store.
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