Microsoft Pix Explained

Microsoft Pix is a camera phone application developed by Microsoft Research for iOS.

Microsoft Research announced Pix in July, 2016, calling it an "intelligent camera app".^{[1] [2]} It is built in part on technology originally developed for Photosynth.^[3]

Its features include:^[4]

• Adjusting settings automatically for faces.
• Combining photos from before and after the shutter button is pressed. Normally it captures ten frames, selects the three best, and combines those to reduce noise.^[1]
• Creation of comix.
• Document capture, including business cards.^[5]
• Focusing on objects of interest.
• Short, looping videos.
• Stylizing.
• Video stabilization and time-lapse.

Notes

1. Killian Bell, "Microsoft says its new camera app is even better than Apple’s", Cult of Mac, July 27, 2016
2. "Microsoft Research Blog" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/platform/microsoft-windows/page/5/?lang=fr_ca
3. News: New Microsoft Pix features let you take bigger, wider pictures and turns your videos into comics - Microsoft Research. 2017-12-20. Microsoft Research. 2018-03-30. en-US.
4. "Microsoft Pix Camera" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftpix?rtc=1
5. Mallory Locklear, "Microsoft Pix can add business card info to your contacts", Engadget March 9, 2018