Glass Imaging, a company harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize digital image quality, raised $20 million in funding.
Global software investor insight Partners led the round. With the funding, Glass Imaging will continue to refine and implement their proprietary GlassAI technologies across a wide range of camera platforms – from smartphones to drones to wearables and more.
The Series A round was joined by previous Glass Imaging investors GV (Google Ventures), Future Ventures and Abstract Ventures, said Ziv Attar, CEO, Glass Imaging, in an interview with GamesBeat.
Glass Imaging uses artificial intelligence to extract the full image quality potential on current and future cameras by reversing lens aberrations and sensor imperfections. Glass works with manufacturers to integrate GlassAI software to boost camera performance 10 times resulting in sharper, more detailed images under various conditions that remain true to life with no hallucinations or optical distortions. Attar thinks of it as taking the “noise” out of images so the quality is much better.
“We can put our tech in any device that has a camera in it. The lab or computers can capture a lot of data from the camera and it learns to characterize lens aberration, sensor noise, optical blur, and then it creates a network that can reverse these things,” said Attar.
Qualcomm had a demo last fall showing off Glass Imaging technology, highlighting AI processes in smartphones.
Other devices that can benefit are makers of drones, which have high-accuracy cameras, Attar said.
“In the lab, we train the AI network to correct the issues that a drone has and we improve the details,” Attar sa …