The CTO of Facebook, Mike Schroepfer has mentioned that the company of the famous social network will launch an update for its mobile applications that will introduce a tool to "transfer the style" that will turn ordinary photos and videos into works of art. This will be possible thanks to its "high efficiency neutral networks" and all this will be done on iOS and Android devices, which we could say are the only two relevant mobile operating systems today.
According to Schroepfer, this update, whose launch seems imminent, it will run entirely on the users' smartphone, which means that it will not be necessary for content to be sent to the servers for analysis and processing, which does not seem to please most users. Facebook's CTO describes the new function as the most demanded by users and as a "technically difficult" obstacle to overcome when adding the function to the company's mobile applications, something that Schroepfer says they have already achieved thanks to a learning platform called «Caffe2Go».
Facebook prepares to release a major update
Facebook's CTO said that sending content to data centers to be analyzed and filtered was not “ideal for letting people share fun content in the moment«. In addition to the basic filters for images and videos, Caffe2Go is also capable of understand control gestures when making a Selfie, For example.
What the Facebook update that Schroepfer is talking about will include will be something similar to what Prisma offers, an application that arrived in the summer and that soon gained popularity for its ability to turn photos or videos into much more interesting images. Initially, Prisma also sent the data to their servers for these filters to be added, but they soon released an update that allowed this process to be done locally.
My question is: was it really so necessary to add these filters to your application?
